Ukraine ranked 111th in the 2026 World Happiness Report with a score of 4.658 on the life evaluation scale. The ranking was published on March 19 and covers 147 countries.
The top 10 “happiest” countries according to the World Happiness Report 2026 are: Finland, Iceland, Denmark, Costa Rica, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Israel, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.
At the bottom of the ranking are Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Yemen, Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, and Tanzania.
According to the report’s methodology, the ranking is based on average life satisfaction scores for 2023–2025 obtained from the Gallup World Poll, and the report itself is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford in partnership with Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
