I moved to Finland 40 years ago – here’s what life is like in the ‘world’s happiest country’ - As Finland is once again branded the cheeriest country, Tim Bird – who swapped Britain for the Nordic nat

For the eighth year in a row, Finland has been named the world’s happiest country. Here's what we can learn from Finland to make our own lives that little bit happier.

Finland is named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday. 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.