India made slight improvement in its happiness quotient, up from 126 in 2024 to 118 this year, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday. Surprisingly, India is unhappier than conflict-affected countries like Ukraine, Mozambique, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Gambia and Venezuela.

Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row. Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.