We're still hanging in there at #8

Wtf happened to ? 34th? Their profile doesn't look like the ones around them either. They rival the top ten in every metric except the light purple region. The actual graph says Dystopia ( 1.88 ) + residual whatever that means.

61st place for freedom and 42nd place for corruption -- Aaron Sorkin needs to update his classic Newsroom rant. It's only gotten worse!

The United States came in 19th place, dropping one spot since last year and a total of five spots since 2017.
Except for its 10th place ranking for income, the US doesn't rank in the top 10 on measures that make up a happy country in the UN report. They include 12th place for generosity, 37th place for social support, 61st place for freedom and 42nd place for corruption.

Addiction is partly to blame, says report co-author Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, who wrote a chapter focused on the US epidemic of addictions and unhappiness in America, a rich country where happiness has been declining.

This year's report provides sobering evidence of how addictions are causing considerable unhappiness and depression in the US," says Sachs, in a press release. "Addictions come in many forms, from substance abuse to gambling to digital media. The compulsive pursuit of substance abuse and addictive behaviors is causing severe unhappiness."

Social connections are weakening in the US as social media usage is raising anxiety, especially among adolescents, says Helliwell.

Well, you know what they say. Correlation always means causation. So that socialism is for sure the cause of happiness.

The USSR ruined the word socialism. That will change as a generation or two pass. The millennials have no such fear of socialist programs.

I am actually surprised that the U.S. rated as highly as it did. We have crushing inequality and income disparity, a massive wage gap, an increasingly heavy-handed police state, lock up more people than any other nation, we're egocentric, and run as a plutocracy that places greed and profit above all else, including family and health.

If I could speak the languages, I would very seriously consider moving to a Scandinavian country, The Netherlands, or Iceland.

All the Social Democratic countries have been on top fumany years, and yet people in the US are afraid. Truly indoctrinated they are.