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India ranks 126th out of 143 countries in the New York Global Happiness Index. Finland has topped the index for the seventh consecutive time and Israel is in fifth place despite a five-month war with Hamas. Countries like Libya, Iraq, Palestine and Niger are below India in the index released on the occasion of United Nations International Happiness Day.
World Happiness Report 2024
This report was produced in partnership with Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the WHR Editorial Board. It was first published in 2012 and for the first time since then, the US (23rd) has dropped out of the top 20 countries. The reason for this is the unhappiness of people under 30 years of age. Afghanistan ranks last in the index, while Pakistan is ranked 108th. According to this, in India Youth Are the happiest, while the lower middle class are the least. In India, older age is linked to higher life satisfaction and this contradicts the claim that a positive relationship between age and life satisfaction exists only in high-income countries.
On average, older men in India are more satisfied with life than older women, but when all other parameters are taken into account, older women are more satisfied with life than older men. In India, older adults with secondary or higher education and upper caste people are more satisfied with life than those without formal education and those from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The report said India's elderly population is the second largest worldwide, with 140 million Indians aged 60 and above, second only to their 250 million Chinese counterparts. Moreover, the average growth rate of Indians aged 60 and above is three times higher than the overall population growth rate of the country. Satisfaction with living arrangements, perceived discrimination and self-rated health emerged as the top three pillars of life satisfaction for India in the study.
