The world’s happiest countries tend to be Nordic and healthy and to have a higher degree of freedom and less inequality. Yet young people in certain regions may be experiencing a decline in well-being ...

Heavy social media use contributes to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries and Western Europe, ...

Finland tops the 2026 World Happiness Report again. See the full ranking, key trends, and where the United States lands this year.

While most youth around the world are happier today than they were 20 years ago, it’s not true for the United States, other English-speaking countries and parts of Western Europe. That’s according to ...

The 2026 World Happiness Report found that heavy social media use is linked to lower happiness — especially among young people. The Report also found that moderate social media use (around an hour a ...