World Happiness Report ranks Finland as happiest country

The latest World Happiness Report 2026 says that heavy social media use has contributed to a stark decline in well-being among young people. It found that the effects are particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries and Western Europe. The annual report was published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. It also found that Finland is the happiest land in the world for the ninth year in a row. Other Nordic countries such as Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway ranked among the top 10 countries.