The World Happiness Report was released on Monday, ranking the happiest countries in the world based on average life evaluations from 150 nations. The good news is happiness remained "remarkably resilient" over the past three years, with global averages aligning with the three years before the pandemic, CNN reports.
"Even during these difficult years, positive emotions have remained twice as prevalent as negative ones, and feelings of positive social support twice as strong as those of loneliness," one of the authors of the report John Helliwell remarked. "Benevolence to others, especially the helping of strangers, which went up dramatically in 2021, stayed high in 2022," he added. The report found that acts of benevolence were approximately one-quarter higher in 2022 than before the pandemic.
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