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Happiness rankings and age

Skimming: Happiness of the younger, the older, and those in between, chapter 2 of the World Happiness Report 2024.

World happiness rankings? It’s complicated:

Uploaded image — Happiness in a society depends on who you ask. I’ve scribbed on two figures from a report (young on the left, old on the right, arrows matching a few)

Still, the answer is basically Scandiwegian:

Uploaded image — Table 2.2 from the chapter, showing the top few countries ad happiness age rankings by different ages.

…for reasons we roughly know.

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