Caring and Sharing: Secrets Behind the Happiness

Abstract

Purpose: World Happiness Report is released. The World Happiness Report, which provides comprehensive interdisciplinary data on people’s happiness and well-being worldwide, reflects a global desire for a stronger focus on happiness and well-being as benchmarks for government policy. The report was published through a global partnership between Gallup, Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Center, and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The Gallup World Poll data is used to calculate the happiness scores and rankings. The main objective of this article is to analyse the various aspects World Happiness Report 2025.The history world happiness report is also looked in to.
Methodology: Main objective of this paper to analyse the evolution of world happiness report and the structure, methodology, variables of world happiness report are also analysed. The position of India and its neighbouring countries also analysed. This is narrative review of world happiness report from 2012 to 2025.Source of data is the reports itself. Only secondary data is used for analysis.
Findings: Nordic nations continue to do well: Finland is at the top of the list, but Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway are also in the top 10. 2025’s Happiest Nations in the World. Using dystopia as a benchmark, this study contrasts the contributions of each of the six components, finding notable decreases in Western industrialised nations that have previously held high ranks. The top 10 includes three from Southeast Asia, one from Africa, and six from Latin America. The lowest percentage of happy emotions is found in Afghanistan. It is also the most likely to sense negative emotions. The top 10 countries for negative sentiments include Armenia, three Middle Eastern countries, and five African countries. India’s rank is 118 out of 147 countries. The Cantrill Ladder is used in the 2025 World Happiness Report to measure people’s level of happiness. To explain the variation in life evaluations among nations, estimates of the relationships between the six factors and observed data were used.
Conclusions: World happiness report is a best indicator of people’s well-being .It is a qualitative indicator rather than quantitative. This shows that happiness of human beings is more than money and wealth; it depends on caring and sharing. In conclusion, prosocial behaviour and sharing contribute to happiness in general. The most significant living circumstances are still GDP per capita, a healthy life expectancy, having a trustworthy person, feeling free to make significant life decisions, the average frequency of donations, and views on corruption in government and business. Since life evaluations are a more reliable indicator of people’s life quality, happiness rankings are based on them. A comparative study of GNH Index and World Happiness Index could be conducted to find out the most suitable index of happiness with respect to countries in particular region.