World Happiness Report finds higher levels of benevolence in all global regions than before the pandemic
It claimed 6.7 million lives, locked down entire countries and triggered a global economic slump, but Covid-19 has not affected humankind’s happiness, an international study has found.
Things were slightly worse in western countries and slightly better in the rest of the world, but overall “the undoubted pains were offset by increases in the extent to which respondents had been able to discover and share the capacity to care for each other in difficult times,” the 10th World Happiness Report found.
“It’s amazing,” said John Helliwell, a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia and a co-editor of the report. “People ended up discovering their neighbours. People were checking in more regularly [with other generations] so that sense of isolation was not as much as you would expect … 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.
stayed bottom, a position it held before the return of the Taliban in 2021. It is also the fourth consecutive year in which the UK has dropped down the happiness scores.
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