Download PDF: https://bit.ly/2JbJc63 A couple of days ago on 20th of March World Happiness Report 2020 was released. This report is released every year by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the United Nations. It is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. In this DNS we will know about the Happiness Report and the rankings of the countries. ____________________________________________________________________________________
https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2020/cities-and-happiness-a-global-ranking-and-analysis/
Cities and Happiness: A Global Ranking and Analysis
"We rank cities' quality of life fundamentally differently than existing rankings: our ranking relies entirely on city dwellers' self-reported quality of life, measured in terms of their subjective well-being. One might criticise our ranking for relying only on subjective indicators. We argue that this is precisely their advantage. We are not relying on a limited number of objective dimensions of quality of life, often defined ex-ante according to what researchers (or policy-makers) consider important. Instead, our ranking is bottom up, emancipating city dwellers to consider for themselves which factors they feel matter most to them. Arguably, this makes it also a more democratic way of measuring their quality of lives.
Our ranking of cities' happiness does not yield fundamentally different results than existing rankings: Scandinavian cities and cities in Australia and New Zealand score high when it comes to the subjective well-being of their residents; cities in countries with histories of political instability, (civil) war, armed conflict, and recent incidences of terrorism score low. Deploying a diverse set of subjective well-being indicators, including evaluative measures such as current and future life evaluation as well as experiential measures such as positive and negative affect, our ranking paints an internally consistent image.
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