World Happiness Report: 2022

Current Context: Recently, World Happiness Report: 2022 was released by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

• For the fifth time Finland got the 1st rank as the world's happiest country and Afghanistan as the unhappiest country followed by Lebanon.
• A big boost has been reflected from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Lebanon, Venezuela, and Afghanistan as the falling countries according to the index.
• Lebanon is recently facing an economic meltdown and came to 146th rank just below Zimbabwe.
• In the 10th year of the World Happiness Report, the report is basically based on the assessment of the happiness of the people and also from the economic and social data.
• The report assigns the happiness score on a scale from 0 to 10, which is based on the average of 3 years of data.
• This year also Northern Europeans gain the top spots over the index with Danes at 2nd place to the Finns followed by Icelandic, the Swiss, and the Dutch.
• The US rose to 3 places to 16th which is one ahead of Britain.
• France climbed to 20th position and it is the highest position of France till date.
• The Index is published in 2012.
• Usually, the Index ranks 150 countries but this year it ranked 146 countries.
• Top 10 Countries according to the report:

1. Finland
2. Denmark
3. Iceland
4. Switzerland
5. The Netherlands
6. Luxembourg
7. Sweden
8. Norway
9. Israel
10. New Zealand

• India is in the 136th Position whereas, Pakistan is in the 121st position, according to the index.

Question: 

Q.1 Which of the following statement is correct about the World happiness Index: 2022?

1. World Happiness Index is published by World Health Organization.
2. The rank of India is 136th according to the index.

a. Only 1
b. Only 2
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above is correct