{"id":69167,"date":"2024-03-21T18:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T18:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?p=69167"},"modified":"2024-03-21T17:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:26:23","slug":"ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa","title":{"rendered":"Ghana misses out on 2024 Top 10 happiest countries in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Ghana failed to secure a spot in the Top 10 happiest countries on the African continent, according to the latest World Happiness Report.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The report showed that Nordic nations are once again at the top of the happiness rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Finland remained the happiest country for the seventh year in a row, with Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden following closely behind.<\/p>\n<p>However, Libya has the highest happiness score in Africa, with 5.866.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the happiness rankings, the report took into account a country\u2019s GDP, life expectancy, and perceptions of freedom and corruption to provide insights into each nation\u2019s particular needs.<\/p>\n<p>According to John Helliwell, emeritus professor of economics at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia, and a founding editor of the World Happiness Report, the poll asked each participant to rate their whole life, taking into account what they value.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you find out Finland\u2019s pretty rich in all of those things like wallets being returned if they\u2019re dropped in the street, people helping each other day in and day out, very high quality and universally distributed health and education opportunities\u2014so everyone more or less comes out of the starting gate the same,\u201d said John Helliwell.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s survey includes age-specific rankings, which reveal troubling patterns in life satisfaction among young people in various regions.<\/p>\n<p>According to the survey, the global happiness disparity has increased by more than 20% over the last twelve years across all geographies and age demographics, with considerable differences identified by age and geographical location.<\/p>\n<p>In many but not all, regions, the young are happier than the elderly. In Sub-Saharan Africa, happiness inequality has risen significantly, notably among the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>From 2021 to 2023, negative emotions were more widespread in every region for females than men, with the gender disparity widening practically everywhere as people got older.<\/p>\n<p>Happiness is an essential component of human well-being, and it has a significant impact on the social and economic development of countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The World Happiness Report, which analyses worldwide happiness in over 150 nations, has named Finland the happiest country for the seventh year in a row.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. Ghana failed to secure a spot in the Top 10 happiest countries on the African continent, according to the latest World Happiness Report. The report showed that Nordic nations are once again at the top of the happiness rankings. Finland remained the happiest country for the seventh year in a row, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":69165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5099],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-69167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ghana misses out on 2024 Top 10 happiest countries in Africa - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ghana failed to secure a spot in the Top 10 happiest countries on the African continent, according to the latest Worl ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghana misses out on 2024 Top 10 happiest countries in Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ghana failed to secure a spot in the Top 10 happiest countries on the African continent, according to the latest Worl ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-21T18:01:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2024\/03\/sm_1711029253.312323.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1494\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"952\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ghana misses out on 2024 Top 10 happiest countries in Africa\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-21T18:01:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa\"},\"wordCount\":374,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2024\/03\/sm_1711029253.312323.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/ghana-misses-out-on-2024-top-10-happiest-countries-in-africa\",\"name\":\"Ghana misses out on 2024 Top 10 happiest countries in Africa - 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