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- The World Happiness Report reflects a worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and well-being as criteria for government policy. It reviews the state of happiness in the world today and shows how the science of happiness explains personal and national variations in happiness.
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Read the Report. Chapter 1 Happiness and Age: Summary; Chapter 2 Happiness of the younger, the older, and those in between; Chapter 3 Child and Adolescent Well-being: Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities; Chapter 4 Supporting the Well-being of an Aging Global Population: Associations between Well-being and Dementia
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- # Introduction
- # Is Sustainable Development Conducive to Human Well-Being?
- # How Well Do The SDG Index and Other Development Indices Explain Well-Being?
- # Unpacking The Sdgs in Relation to Well-Being
- # A Simple Baseline Theory of Sdgs and SWB
- # Conclusion
- # References
This chapter explores the empirical links between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and human well-being. The SDGs were ratified in 2015 as the successor to the Millennium Development Goals and have a target date of 2030. The goals measure different aspects of the economic, social and environmental development within countries. To empiricall...
For our analyses, we use the standard measure of well-being used in the World Happiness Report rankings and most other research on the topic. The survey item asks respondents to value their current lives on a 0 to 10 scale, with the worst possible life as a 0 and the best possible life as a 10. Countries are coded to represent the six regions they ...
In this section, we investigate how well the SDG Index relates to human well-being. To be able to compare and contrast the SDG Index (SDGI) we also include the Human Development Index (HDI), Index of Economic Freedom (IEF), Global Peace Index (GPI), Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), Environmental Protection Index (EPI), and GDP per capita. Table ...
In this section, we unpack the SDGs and consider the seventeen goals separately in relation to well-being. While the overall SDG Index may correlate strongly with human well-being, the question remains whether some SDGs may be more or less conducive to well-being. We start by considering the basic univariate correlations between each SDG and well-b...
In this section, we propose a simple conceptual model of how the SDGs may shape well-being by way of the six well-being determinants as laid out in Chapter 2. These are Income, Social support, Generosity, Freedom to make life choices, Trust in government and business, and Healthy life expectancy. The arrows in the model represent linear correlation...
This chapter has studied the empirical relationship between the SDGs and subjective well-being using data from the SDG Index and the Gallup World Poll. There is a strong correlation between achieving sustainable development and self-reported measures of well-being. Moreover, the analyses indicate that there are increasing marginal returns to sustai...
Bennett, N.J., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Blythe, J. et al. (2019): Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy. Nature Sustainability, 2, 991–993 doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0404-1 Azen, R., and Budescu, D. V. (2003): The dominance analysis approach for comparing predictors in multiple regression. Psychological Methods, 8, 129-48. Deaton, A., and ...
Happiness across the world today. The World Happiness Report is a well-known source of cross-country data and research on self-reported life satisfaction. The map here shows, country by country, the ‘happiness scores’ published this report.
- Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, Max Roser
- 2013
Mar 20, 2024 · The findings, announced today to mark the UN’s International Day of Happiness, are powered by data from the Gallup World Poll and analysed by some of the world’s leading wellbeing scientists. Experts use responses from people in more than 140 nations to rank the world’s ‘happiest’ countries.
Fresh insights from the World Happiness Report 2024, released today (March 20), paint the richest picture yet of happiness trends across different ages and generations.
The World Happiness Report provides valuable, interdisciplinary insights into the well-being and happiness of people across the globe, reflecting a worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and well-being as criteria for government policy.
We encourage you to explore the 2024 report for the latest findings on the happiness of the world’s young, the old – and everyone in between. Chapter 2 Happiness of the younger, the older, and those in between. Chapter 3 Child and Adolescent Well-being: Global Trends, Challenges and Opportunities.
