Finland is the happiest country and Afghanistan is the saddest country in the world!

According to IRNA on Saturday, the Guardian newspaper wrote: The latest UN list of happy and sad countries has been prepared before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The report adds: Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia have seen the most growth in improving the mood of the people. The biggest drop in the list of happy countries in the world, which was published on Friday, is in Lebanon, Venezuela and Afghanistan.

In this list, Lebanon, which is facing an economic crisis, is among the saddest countries in the world among 146 countries after Afghanistan and Zimbabwe.

The war-torn country of Afghanistan, which was also the saddest country in the world last year, has seen a deepening humanitarian crisis since the Taliban returned to power in August and the withdrawal of US troops.

“This index is a reminder of the material and non-material damage of war to many of its victims,” ​​said John Emmanuel De Nou, who co-authored the list.

The report on the happiest countries in the world, now published for the tenth year in a row, is based on people’s own assessments of their happiness and economic and social data.

Happiness scores on a scale of 0 to 10 are determined based on the average of three-year data.

Northern European countries were previously at the top of the list, followed by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

In this list, the United States has increased three places in terms of happiness index and has risen to the sixteenth place, and is higher than the United Kingdom. France rose to 20th place, the highest on the list.

Apart from personal feelings of happiness, a Gallup poll in each of these countries ranks happiness based on gross domestic product, social support, individual freedom, and the level of corruption.

However, UN assessments of the state of happiness and sadness in various countries have been criticized by critics, especially in these studies, the indigenous characteristics of societies including geographical, cultural, climatic and the role of tradition. Are ignored in shaping individual spirits.

For example, when Finland topped the list of happiest countries for the first time in 2018, some were surprised as many of the 5.5 million people in the Nordic country described themselves as low-key and prone to depression. Public displays look happy with suspicion.