For the second year in a row, Finland was ranked first in the 2019 World Happiness Rankings, an annual study produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network with the Ernesto Illy Foundation.
According to report co-editor John Helliwell, happiness in the top-ranked countries is probably not attributable to genetics alone.
“It’s true that last year all Finns were happier than [the] rest of the countries’ residents, but their immigrants were also happiest immigrants in the world,” Helliwell told CNN. “It’s not about Finnish DNA. It’s the way life is lived in those countries.”
