World Happiness Report 2025: Unhappiest nation isn’t war-torn Palestine or Gaza; But…

The United Nation on Thursday released the World Happiness Report 2025 that focused on the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness. This year, Finland has been declared as the happiest country out of 147 countries. Which one is the unhappiest?

The World Happiness Report 2025 has declared Afghanistan as the unhappiest country with a score of 1.364. The report is published based analysis of how the residents of 147 countries rate their quality of life.

In the Happiness Report 2025, there were drastic decline in people’s responses to Ranking by Life Evaluations with key variables like GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, perceptions of corruption, dystopia and others in Afghanistan.

According to the report, people in Afghanistan have reported no freedom to make life choices.

“There remains a large gap between the top and bottom countries – more than six points (on a 0–10 scale) between Finland at the top and Afghanistan at the bottom. The top countries are more tightly grouped than the bottom ones. The top twenty have a spread of less than one point on the 0–10 scale, with the corresponding spread among the bottom twenty being three times as great. The remaining 100-odd countries cover the remaining 2.3 points of the total range,” the report stated.

This means that relatively modest changes in a national average can lead to a large shift in rank, as illustrated by 95 percent confidence regions of more than 25 ranks for several countries in the middle of the global list, it added.

In the report, the researchers also stated that ranks are not so easily compared since there were 156 countries ranked in 2013 compared to 147 this year.

“Afghanistan has gone