World Happiness Report: Ghana Ranks 125th Out Of 147, Behind Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali And Niger
- The latest World Happiness Report has generated a lot of talking points on social media
- Ghana featured in 125th position with many countries such as Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Niger, all performing better
- Social media users who reacted to the news on different platforms shared varied opinions on the latest ranking
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Ghana has chalked an unenviable position in the 2025 World Happiness Report.
This comes after Ghana ranked 125th out of 147 countries in the 2025 edition of the report released in March.
Source: Facebook
The report which has been published since 2012 focuses on how happy people living in various countries across the world are.
The factors used in this ranking take into consideration Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices and generosity, as well as perceptions of corruption.
Top 10 countries in World Happiness ranking
Finland took first place for the eighth consecutive year running having attained a score of 7.76 out of 10.
Denmark took second place with Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands taking third, fourth and fifth positions respectively.
Other countries that completed the top ten list were Costa Rica, Norway, Israel, Luxembourg and Mexico.
The US and UK were ranked 23rd and 24th respectively.
Ghana fails to make top 100
Mauritius was the African country that performed best after ranking 78th.
Libya (79th), Algeria (84th), South Africa (95th), Mozambique (96th), Gabon (97th), Cote d'Ivoire (98th) and Congo (100th) were other African countries that made the top 100.
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Ghana was ranked 125th out of 147 countries with Nigeria (105th), Niger (110th) Burkina Faso (120th), and Mali (123rd) surpassing the country in the ranking.
Reactions to Ghana's ranking in World Happiness report
Social media users who took to the comments section of the post shared varied opinions on the latest ranking.
@Adammubarik18 stated:
"It's always the countries that derive "happiness" from immoral acts and have broken social fibre but strong economies that are always at the top. Those with solid social fibre, a strong independent economy, and are debt-free are always below 20."
@ETSGhana reacted:
"Akufo-Addo's handwork."
@_Filta_ replied:
"What does this one mean."
@osibisa09 reacted:
"How will we be happy when we have been looted left, right and centre."
@MrAkwafo replied:
"Bogus stats. Who can confirm here, that he or she was engaged during the sampling?"
@QhojoTrust
How can we be happy? When Addo D was our president."
@foster_kodua added:
"How can we be happy when King Pharaoh was our President."
@SirDigital_ replied
"A country wey we take everything for a joke? So people are on social media insulting rich people just to go home and cry?"
UCC, UG & KNUST ranked among best African universities
Earlier, YEN.com.gh reported the top three universities in Ghana made the list of the top-ranked universities in Africa.
The University of Cape Coast ranked 29th in Africa, right above the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, which ranked 30th. The University of Ghana was ranked 33rd.
The US News and World Report Global Universities Rankings covered 2,250 universities.
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