A collective measure of happiness is incredibly difficult to define.
While economic opportunity and education can certainly enhance people’s well-being, happiness is often assessed through different lenses. These include ‘inner’ factors like personal harmony and ‘outer’ factors such as social interactions, as well as a ‘task’ focus, such as finding fulfillment in work.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows the happiest countries among the world’s major economies, based on analysis from Ray Dalio’s Great Powers Index 2024.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/which-nation-worlds-happiest-answer-may-surprise-you
https://www.voronoiapp.com/healthcare/Which-Countries-Are-the-Healthiest–2525