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World Happiness Report 2021

As noted within the report, the year 2021 has been one like no other. The Gallup World Poll team has faced significant challenges in collecting responses this year due to COVID-19, and we much appreciate their efforts to provide timely data for this Report. We also greatly appreciate the life satisfaction data collected during 2020 as part of the Covid Data Hub run in 2020 by Imperial College London and the YouGov team. 

By Helliwell, J.F.; Layard, R.; Sachs, J.D.; De Neve, J.-E. on July 05, 2024

This is the ninth World Happiness Report. The first eight reports were produced by the founding trio of co-editors assembled in Thimphu in July 2011 pursuant to the Bhutanese Resolution
passed by the General Assembly in June 2011 that invited national governments to “give
more importance to happiness and well-being in determining how to achieve and measure social
and economic development.” The Thimphu meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Jigme Y.
Thinley and Jeffrey D. Sachs, was called to plan for a United Nations High-Level Meeting
on ‘Well-Being and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm’ held at the UN on
April 2, 2012. The first World Happiness Report was prepared in support of that meeting and
reviewing evidence from the emerging science of happiness.

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