These are the top 10 happiest countries, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report. Did the United States make the cut?

The results are in for the 2025 World Happiness Report, and yet again Nordic countries top the list in self-reported well-being. While this year’s report, which focuses on “the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness,” has some bad news for the United States and about increasing loneliness worldwide, it also includes some interesting takeaways on aspects that can boost or diminish life satisfaction — from the benefits of dining with others to a happy household size. Here’s what we learned.

Finland is the world’s happiest country (again). Here are the top 10.

Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, with Finns reporting an average life satisfaction score of 7.74 out of 10. Nordic countries once again lead the world in happiness, but the top 10 list also sees some newcomers — with Costa Rica (6th) and Mexico (10th) entering the top 10 for the first time.

1. Finland

2. Denmark

3. Iceland

4. Sweden

5. Netherlands

6. Costa Rica

7. Norway

8. Israel

9. Luxembourg

10. Mexico

The World Happiness Report ranks countries using data from the Gallup World Poll, which asks respondents to evaluate their life as a whole on a scale of 0 to 10 — with the best possible life as a 10 and the worst as a 0. They gather about 1,000 responses from each country every year, which are then weighted to give population-representative national averages. To determine each country’s annual happiness ranking, researchers then use an average of three years’ worth of data; so the 2025 report uses survey data from 2022-24.