The U.S. ranked 24th on the World Happiness Report 2025, marking its lowest ranking in the 13-year history of the list.
The report is a collaboration between Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, according to a March 20 joint news release. It uses Gallup World Poll data from 2022 to 2024, including respondents’ self-evaluations of their lives. The world poll data has included more than 150,000 respondents in more than 140 countries.
Rankings are determined by a three-year average of each country’s quality of life assessments. Experts analyze the variations in rankings using factors such as healthy life expectancy and GDP per capita, the release said.
Finland topped the list as the world’s happiest country for the eighth year in a row, while Costa Rica (6th) and Mexico (10th) entered the top 10 for the first time. The United Kingdom (23rd) reported its lowest average life evaluation since the 2017 report.
Here are the 25 happiest countries, according to the 2025 report:
1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Iceland
4. Sweden
5. Netherlands
6. Costa Rica
7. Norway
8. Israel
9. Luxembourg
10. Mexico
11. Australia
12. New Zealand
13. Switzerland
14. Belgium
15. Ireland
16. Lithuania
17. Austria
18. Canada
19. Slovenia
20. Czechia
21. United Arab Emirates
22. Germany
23. United Kingdom
24. United States
25. Belize
