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Why Denmark dominates the World Happiness Report rankings year after year

  • Written by Marie Helweg-Larsen, Professor of Psychology, Dickinson College
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The new World Happiness Report again ranks Denmark among the top three happiest of 155 countries surveyed – a distinction that the country has earned for seven consecutive years.

The U.S., on the other hand, ranked 18th in this year’s World Happiness...

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