UN Happiness Report: Finland Is Considered The Happiest Country On Earth Despite The Cold | TIME
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- Finland, along with other Scandinavian countries, landed the top spot on the United Nations’ World Happiness Report, released Wednesday. The list, which ranks countries based on account income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity.
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UN Happiness Report: Finland Is Considered The Happiest Country On Earth Despite The Cold | TIME
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"Scandinavian country" this is gonna ruffle some feathers
Finland is not scandinavian
I live in offended and i feel finland
I hope you misspelled that as a joke
@@joona7313 you must be 9 if that wasnt a clear joke to you
@Big blue whale The language is completely different
@@heinedenmark So what. Otherwise Finland is similar with other nordic countries. Pay a visit!
@@blackcoffeebeans6100 I've been there several times..
Most Finns are a lot happier in summer time than in winter. In fact long dark winters cause depression, as the amount of light reduces. But in summer time Sun is up almost the whole day, it's light 24 hours a day. And people are much more lively and energetic.
Same here in Oslo
Aurinkohirvi wow sinä olet mun kaveri nyt koska sinä tidetä plajon Finlandissa!
well you can look at happiness with different ways, Finns dont seem happy, but the life satisfaction is so good that most finns feel satisfied and happy.
@@Alexandros.Mograine you don't need to smile 24/7 and you can still be happy.
But there's an antidote to the long, dark, cold winters: the SAUNA!
Finland is not Scandinavian. It's Nordic
7moonwalker; Well, the only Northern European countries, which locate on the geographic area of Scandinavia are Norway, Sweden and partly Finland when for example Denmark and Iceland don´t locate in Scandinavia at all and don´t own any land in Scandinavia. Iceland is a relatively big Northern Atlantic Ocean island and Denmark is a part of Central Europe.
@@GBOY69GAY whats your point?
They don't use nordic because that's what Hitler used to call them.
@@huitase313 Nonsense.
What do you mean _despite_ the cold? The cold is fantastic, it's like full-body menthol. Sincerely, a Finn.
Also, it's Nordic, not Scandinavian. Scandinavia is a specific region, the Nordics are countries that are part of the same ethnoculture, but they're not all in Scandinavia.
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Funland
The best things are not things
Yep its "FUN"LAND
God bless all ♡♡♡
It's an athiest country
Finland is secular, not atheistic. Almost 80% of Finns (like other Nordics) are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church though only few are active. Generally religion is seen a bit differently than in US, in Finland it's more private thing. A Finnish specialty is that it's the least (
@@d0nka Surprisingly there are percentually new born christians quite a big number in Finland. More than in Great Britain. Atheists in Finland do not like to admit that fact.
Finland isn't a Scandinavian country. Denmark, Norway and Sweden are the only ones.
No.. it's a nordic country. Not a Scandinavian. I live in Denmark.. I know :) Anyone telling you something else is wrong. There's even a Scandinavian language that are taught in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
Where the Vikings came from :)
Whatever.. Finland is not considered Scandinavian by Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, or Fins for that matter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia
We live close to each other.. and there by share some common history. Of course.. But Finnish langauge is completely different from Scandinavia.. they even look different. The Baltic countries also shares a lot of things with us.. all this was started by the Vikings. But hey.. call it what you like.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland
Yes all that cold tends to make yu snuggle. . .haha
The word "happy" and "happiness" is over used and misunderstood these days. Finland has a great Governmental system, low corruption and very good social network lead by the State. That's what these reports are measuring. The people and the private sectors are another story. The weather is so hard that you need to run out of Finland many times per year to sunnier places just to cross the very cold and dark days of winter. Social interaction is limited and people see very strange that you want to talk to strangers on the street just to say "hi " inside an elevator (a case that is very different in other countries) . The rate of suicides is high for such a small country of 5 million people. So the question about "happiness" is still open...
The suiciderates have gone drasticly down. Now 34th place. In Europe Lithuania and Belarus are leading. Forinstance Belgium Russia, Hungary etc. Are far ahead of Finland. Finland is likely in the middle. You can google that.
Finland has too the most homogenic white race population in Europe. Finnish people are too commonly the most white skin, the most blond hair and the most blue eyes people in the world together with our close relative nation and Baltic Southern neighbour country people, the original Estonians in Estonia, and the Northern Germany´s coastline areas people. Then believe or not, the closest genetic relatives of the Finnish people in Europe are the original Germanic Dutch people in Holland and the Belgium´s Germanic Flames. Greetings from Northern Europe, Finland! :)
"happy" is the last word I would use to describe finland. I have been living here all my life and I think it is funny how people belive that living here is perfect and we have everything under control. the truth is; living here is quite sad, boring, routine filled and melancholic. everything works fine, but I feel like no one is really ENJOYING. people don't care about each other over here! being independent is a huge value in finnish culture and surviving on your own makes you a hero. caring too much is weird here. we have a huge mental health problem! depression is so common due to social norms and the weather. so when they say "happy", it doesn't mean real happiness, it means mostly safety and balance. if you visit finland as a tourist, you will not understand this. if you move to finland, I think the truth will slap you in the face at some point. this is my opinion.
Very insightful comments and a lot more relevant than a UN accolade with very selective perameters. The UN report draws data from places like (I am not making this up!) Happiness Research Institute which is based in....Denmark. UN does not include but excludes the EU FRA 2017 MIDIS II official report data that ranks Finland as #2 most racial discriminatory EU nation. PM Juha Sipilä can also continue to deny these issues while the majority ignore the minorities.
Roraneel, I have lived here in Finland for 65 years, and I share much of your critics about Finland. This is not a paradise. But I think, that the other countries have more flaws in their structures than Finland, and so proportionally we are in better situation than the others, although many of us doesn't agree with that. One key factor is, that in Finland it is morally very questionable to show your happiness in public. If you are happy, you have to hide it. "Kell' onni on , se onnen kätkeköön", is the text is a popular Finnish song. To be openly happy might irritate those, who are not as happy. That logic might sound weird to an Italian or a Brazilian, but that is how we Finns basically behave.
Finland was topping the list of suicides in 1990, but from that this number has halved in Finland. Obviously we have done something right in our mental care. One of the basic factors adding stress is the big change from 0 hours daylight to 24 hours in the summer and back to 0 hours in the winter. Naturally this is true only in the northern part of Finland. Here in Jyväskylä the difference between the shortest and longest day is "only" 14.5 hours. But still the nature here is pulsating heavily and we have not yet been physically adapted to that.
Roraneel I have lived here my whole life and i seriously thinks its fun... it kinda depends from how you see life... and also how you live...
Or perhaps you've never lived in another country so you just think there's a la-la-la land somewhere where everyone is happy. Just because you're depressed, doesn't mean the rest of us are.
Furio Giunta Yeah youre right
just call it for what it is: centre-left social democracy and a mixed market economy.
Actually the centre-right parties have had the majority in the Finnish parliament for a long time, though the majority supports the "Nordic model"
+milkrokupu That's the point. The political centre in Scandinavia, and in Europe in general, is so far to the left. The centre-right for the Finish would be liberal even by US democrat standards. Even Germany has a hard time telling a difference between the CDU and the SPD. Its just the politics in America is skewed so far to the right, it distorts all other societies.
Ain'r no Slice Yeah it can be tricky to compare different political maps. In Finland the largest conservative party supports gay marriages. the Green party (relatively big with 14% support) is placed more in centre than in left. They have been in the same government with the Cons several times.
Finland is a very capitalist country. It has got percentually more small private businesses than US. Forests are mostly in private ownership. There is a free marketin economy. Finland has got all the freedoms in the world. I am very happy living in Finland.
......that's exactly why they are happy. .....COLD WEATHER! !!!!......closest to the middle east and the equator line those people are unhappy and fighting among themselves. ....i wonder why? ????......weather affects health and hot weather creates disease and devastation such as running out of water. ....you see evidence in the video and you describe it. ...."despite the cold ".. .. ..its cold weather that makes you healthy and happy. ....the country of Iceland is a perfect example. Compare that country to the hottest country in the world and you see will huge difference when it comes to violence in there separate societies.
Nordics and Switzerland are the happiest countries judging by standards of living, but according to surveys on emotions and daily experiences, the happiest countries are in Latin America.
@@SA-121 World happines index report and UN ranked Finland The happiest country 2018, 2019 and 2020.
@@SA-121 ppl in other countries are so anxious to put Finland down,cuz they are jealous. Do not believe everything.
Forinstance Guyana is The first on The suiciderates in The world.
Yeey Finland the happiest and free? well only free thing is walking in
the forrest all other things cost. Finland sucks and i live there, i'm
leaving when getting my pension.
I'm from finland and I'm not happy, thanks to the immigration policy. have to let everything in the world of bearded babies here and spoil a beautiful country.
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Finland's immigration policy is not as "bad" as in other countries in Europe. I visited many countries and lived in Australia.
Cannot Even compare.
finnish and not happy because of immigration policies, selfish and right down corrupted politicians, and because I am part of the growing number of unemployed people. someone give me a job.
I know it sucks to lose your job.. But actually the number of unemployed people has been coming slowly down and a labor shortage is more common now. But yes, I know it can be hard to find a proper full time job if you don't have the right education.