Rating Happiness

The UN publishes the Happiness Report every year. This year there is not much change when you look at the top 10. The same countries have appeared there for the past three years:

Finland 
Norway 
Denmark 
Iceland 
Switzerland 
Netherlands 
Canada 
New Zealand 
Sweden 
Australia

The countries are ranked on the following - income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity.

We are ranked 18th. The reasoning: "The U.S. is in the midst of a complex and worsening public-health crisis, involving epidemics of obesity, opioid addiction, and major depressive disorder that are all remarkable by global standards." Plus high levels of income inequality, a "woefully inadequate" health care system, corporate deregulation and increasing screen time on new technologies. "The main issue for the U.S. is not the lack of means to address the crises of public health and declining well-being. Rather, perhaps the major practical barrier is corporate lobbying that keeps dangerous corporate practices in place and imposes untold burdens on the poor and vulnerable parts of the U.S. population, coupled with the failure of the American political system to address and understand America's growing social crisis."

Here are the 10 unhappiest countries 
Malawi 
Haiti 
Liberia 
Syria 
Rwanda 
Yemen 
Tanzania 
South Sudan 
Central African Republic 
Burundi