Ghana has ranked 125 out of 147 countries in the 2025 World Happiness Report from its previous position of 120 in 2024, representing a five place drop.
2025 report released on March 20, 2025 reviews global happiness based on GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and perceptions of corruption from 147 countries in the year 2024.
The 2025 report has Finland leading in the ranking globally, with Denmark and Iceland joining to complete the top three spot, Mauritius which ranked 78th is the leading African country on the list, followed closely by Libya, ranked 79th.
Lebanon, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan ranks at the bottom of the list at 145, 146 and 147 respectively.
The World Happiness Report is published by the University of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre in partnership with Gallup, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
The first World Happiness Report was presented on 2 April 2012 at a high-level meeting on wellbeing and happiness featuring heads of state, senior UN leaders, and world-leading social scientists.
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