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By: NoCamels Team - March 21, 2021
Israel climbed to the 12th rank in the latest annual United Nations World Happiness Report for 2021, up two spots from the 2020 survey released last year just as the coronavirus pandemic was gaining speed across the world.
The country ranked 13th in the 2019 World Happiness Report and 11th in 2018, a rank it held consecutively for five years previously. It improved its position in the annual survey in 2021 amid a world-leading COVID-19 vaccination campaign that has seen over half of Israel’s population fully inoculated so far and despite three nationwide coronavirus lockdown and an upcoming national election this week, its fourth in two years.
The World Happiness Report, produced by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), ranks countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be according to six key variables: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and freedom from corruption.
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