Find Your Favorite Places In Finland
United Nations Annual Happiness Report
Ranked #1 for Happiness
For 6 years in a row, Finland has ranked #1 for Happiness in the United Nations Annual Happiness Report.
The Report, which since 2002 has tabulated the relative happiness of people in all countries, analyzes factors such gross domestic product per capita, social support, life expectancy, freedom to make one’s own life choices, generosity, and perceptions of the level of corruption in society. In its most recent report, the United States came in 15th out of the 149 countries on the survey.
Happiest Country In The World
Find Your Favorite Places In Finland
What could Finland teach us about living a happy and well-balanced life?
What are we in the United States missing?
Among the possibilities: a robust social safety net for all citizens, a universally outstanding educational system (#1 for 19 years in the United Nations Annual Happiness Report), natural beauty within easy reach, and a strong emphasis on community.
Finns’ expectations for happiness could be summarized as a national contentment that carries them through even their harsh winters based partly on their underlying spirit of stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, and resilience – what they call Sisu.
Finland is a nation that has truly mastered the art of happiness.
Join us as we explore their schools, government, prisons, nature, saunas, and culture to see how we might bring a little bit of Finnish Sisu – and Happiness – into our own lives.