Vatican City — Finland is the world’s happiest country, according to an annual survey issued on Wednesday that put Burundi at the bottom of the happiness index and found Americans were becoming less happy even as their country becomes richer. The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s (SDSN) 2018 World Happiness Report ranked 156 countries according to their scores for things such as GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, social freedom, generosity and absence of corruption. Finland, rose from fifth place last year to oust Norway from the top spot. The 2018 top-10, as ever dominated by the Nordics, is: Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia. SA dropped to 105th place from 101st in 2017, below Palestinian Territories and higher than Iran. The US came in at 18th, down from 14th place in 2017. Britain was 19th and the United Arab Emirates 20th. One chapter of the 170-page report is dedicated t...
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