The Wellbeing Research Center has released its figures for 2025, reporting on life satisfaction around the world. Respondents are asked to rank their lives on a scale of one to ten, and the country with the highest life satisfaction is Finland at an average of 7.74. The lowest is Afghanistan at 1.36. Madagascar, which I always look up first in global rankings of anything, is 4.16.

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