World Happiness Report
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Sep 20, 2026
Guy RazSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ah.
Mindy ThomasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Anywho, there's also a World Happiness Report-
Guy RazSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[gasps]
Mindy ThomasSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
... where scientists and researchers get together to measure the levels of happiness and well-being from all across the globe.
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Chronic exposure to high stimulus tech activities can lead to dopamine dysregulation, which, over time, can dampen your brain's pleasure response and affect your attention and motivation.
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There's endless fun and information at our fingertips, but at the same time, global depression rates have been climbing over the past 30 years, according to the World Happiness Report.
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People in high-income countries have become more unhappy.
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We can't be alone with our thoughts anymore.
Michael PlantGUEST
We did this, had this piece of the, the first global comparison of charities.
Michael PlantGUEST
It was published in the World Happiness Report.
Michael PlantGUEST
And our sort of best estimate is that between the best charities we found and the sort of average UK charity, it's about a thousand times.
Michael PlantGUEST
So- thousand pounds to one charity could do as much good as a million pounds to another.
Daniel EdwardHOST
But actually by living there, by getting under the skin of it over decades, You've actually been able to connect to a much more nuanced understanding of what that really means, what happiness actually is.
Tim BirdGUEST
Yes, in the context of the World Happiness Report, which, as you say, repeatedly ranks Finland as the happiest country in the world.
Tim BirdGUEST
My book, Happy Land, Finding My Inner Finn, is about this happiness thing and looking at it, as I like to say, from a sideways perspective.
Tim BirdGUEST
I'm not being cynical about it because I think there are some arguments to be made for why it keeps winning this accolade.
Judy AnsellHOST
The Nordic countries are generally considered to be Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland.
Judy AnsellHOST
All of these countries rank in the top ten of the World Happiness Report.
Judy AnsellHOST
and within the top nine least unequal on the world inequality index while the us ranks 29th in equality and 23rd in happiness behind saudi arabia mexico slovenia and even the emirates so give us an overview of the nordic model and should it get the credit for all this happiness
Erica GubriumGUEST
Yeah, I mean, the Nordic model has a history going back to the early 20th century, but especially after World War II, the Nordic welfare model was developed.
LukeHOST
Do you want to be happy? And actually, in Sweden, we're pretty good at happiness.
LukeHOST
According to the World Happiness Report, Sweden is ranked the fifth happiest country in the world, everybody.
LukeHOST
Country number one happiest country in the world is Finland, which I think is crazy, because whenever I meet a Finnish person, they do not look happy.
LukeHOST
I got to be honest with you.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
how organizations operate, and how business relationships evolve over time.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
When Finland is mentioned internationally, conversations often turn to the World Happiness Report.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
For the ninth consecutive year, Finland ranks first in the 2026 edition of the report.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
While the ranking attracts attention, what I find more interesting is what lies behind it.
Jonathan HaidtGUEST
I think it was just really unfair of her to say that I've confused the two or that I wasn't careful about it.
Jonathan HaidtGUEST
At the time, there were multiple kinds of evidence, but what I've done since then, what my team, we, uh, the Tech and Society Lab at NYU Stern, what we've done is we've aggregated the evidence into a, a, a major review paper that is published in the World Happiness Report 2026.
Jonathan HaidtGUEST
So if you just type in World Happiness Report and then my name, Haidt, H-A-I-D-T, you'll find it.
Jonathan HaidtGUEST
And we lay out these seven lines of evidence as if we were prosecutors in a court case.
Jonathan HaidtGUEST
And so, uh, the correlational studies, those don't prove causation.
Patrick BoyleHOST
It is a slow, but always polite stagnation.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Between 2012 and today, Canada has fallen from number six on the World Happiness Index to number 25, its lowest ranking since the survey began.
Patrick BoyleHOST
To see a national mood sour this quickly, you usually have to look at countries whose central banks have been replaced by printing presses or whose borders are being redrawn.
Patrick BoyleHOST
In Canada, the institutions are still there and the borders haven't moved.
BrandonHOST
Here's some statistics that are gonna make your head spin a little bit.
BrandonHOST
Again, Jonathan Haidt wrote an article for the World Happiness Report and talks about some statistics on social media.
BrandonHOST
The average US teen now spends nearly five hours a day, five hours a day on social media.
BrandonHOST
A recent survey found that one quarter of 13 to 14 year olds in the US were on social media for seven or more hours a
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