Kazakhstan ranks 40th out of 146 countries in world happiness report
NUR-SULTAN — Kazakhstan has moved up five places since 2021 and now ranks 40th out of 146 countries in the tenth World Happiness Report 2022 released on March 18.
Kazakhstan ranks 40th in the World Happiness Report 2022. Photo credit: worldhappiness.report
The report is based on the Average Life Rating which draws on factors such as perceptions of corruption, generosity, freedom to make life choices, healthy life expectancy, support social, GDP per capita, among others.
In this regard, Kazakhs are mostly satisfied with the GDP per capita, but they are concerned about the problem of corruption, according to the authors of the report John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shun Wang and Max Norton, all academics from prestigious Canadian universities , who conducted a global survey of over nine million people in 2019-2021.
Overall, Finland ranks first, Denmark and Iceland are second and third, while Switzerland and the Netherlands round out the top five countries with the highest happiness indicators.
Among the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) countries, Uzbekistan ranks 53rd, Kyrgyzstan ranks 64th, Belarus is 65th and Russia is 80th, while Germany finished 14th, the United States is 16th and the United Arab Emirates are 24th.