Full disclosure: My editor asked me to answer this question—“What’s the fastest language in the world?”—because I like writing about both language and strange, global superlatives. Pretty quickly I realized that there’s a basic problem (albeit a fun one!) with the question: We first have to determine what we even mean by “fastest.” Does that mean the number of words or syllables spoken in a set amount of time? The amount of information conveyed? The language with the fewest words or syllables to convey a set statement? The language that can be understood when cranked up to the highest speed? What even is English jacked up to 4x? 10x?
Ranked: The 20 Happiest Countries In The World In 2024
20.03.2024 - 04:13 / forbes.com
Finland has done it again. The 2024 World Happiness Report is out, and for the seventh year in a row, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world.
But the news isn’t as good for the United States—which has hit a new low. The U.S. didn’t even make the top 20 list—the first time it has ranked so poorly since the World Happiness Report was created in 2012.
This annual report ranks global happiness in more than 140 countries around the world. The ranking is based on six factors—social support, income, health, freedom, generosity and absence of corruption—using data from sources including the Gallup World Poll. Released every year in honor of the International Day of Happiness on March 20, it is a partnership between several outlets including the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Gallup and the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre.
This year’s top 10 list is similar to past rankings in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019, with many of the Nordic countries in the highest spots. Denmark and Iceland once again took the next number two and three spots, followed by Sweden (number four). Norway ranked number seven.
Last year, the United States came in at number 15. For 2024, the U.S. plummeted to number 23. Even countries like Costa Rica and Lithuania—new entrants to the top 20 list—ranked higher. The reason? Happiness is lower in the U.S., especially among younger people
The list also looked at happiest places broken down by age. The world’s happiest country for people under 30? Lithuania. The U.S. didn’t fare as well: For people under 30, it ranked number 62.
The winner for people over 60: Denmark. The U.S. did better for this age group, coming in at number 10.
According to the report, the old are now significantly happier than the young in countries like Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Spain are countries. It’s the opposite in Portugal and Greece—where the young are happier than the old.
There was also data showing that children are becoming less happy. “Piecing together the available data on the wellbeing of children and adolescents around the world, we documented disconcerting drops especially in North America and Western Europe. To think that, in some parts of the world, children are already experiencing the equivalent of a mid-life crisis demands immediate policy action,” Prof Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Director of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre, Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at Saïd Business School and an editor of the World Happiness Report, said in a release.
Loneliness was another big trend that the report noted. “There is widespread concern, especially in the United States, about an emerging epidemic of loneliness, and about the consequences
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