According to the 2024 World Happiness Report, Ghanaians are feeling sadder compared to the previous year.
Ghana has been ranked 120th for happiness among countries worldwide, scoring 4,289 points.
This marks a drop from Ghana’s 2023 ranking of 111th on the United Nations (UN) list of the happiest 150 countries in the world. Unfortunately, Ghana did not make it into the top 10 happiest countries in Africa once again.
Similarly, none of the 54 African countries made it to the top fifty countries in the World Happiness Report.
In 2023, Mauritius, the happiest African country, was ranked 52nd globally. This year, Libya has been deemed the most joyful country in Africa, with a happiness score of 5.866, ranking 66th globally.
The 2024 World Happiness Report has once again placed Finland as the happiest country for the third consecutive year. However, the United States has dropped to 23rd place from 15th place. Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Lesotho were ranked at the bottom of the list.
John Helliwell, a Canadian economist and founding editor of the World Happiness Report, noted on Wednesday that younger people are not as happy as they were a decade or so ago.
“The older people have not experienced many changes, and their life circumstances have stayed the same. This is causing them anxiety. ”
The report looks at information from 140 countries and uses six important factors to understand how people feel about their lives: how much money they have, how much support they get from others, how long they are expected to live, how much freedom they have, how generous they are, and how they feel about corruption.
The 2024 report was the first to rank people by age, showing big differences between young and old in some countries.