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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:

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)
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:

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