According to the 2025 World Happiness Report, Taiwan is the happiest country in Asia.
It moved up from 31st place last year to 27th place out of 147 locations worldwide that were ranked this year, overtaking Singapore as the top spot. Beijing views the democratically self-governing island of Taiwan as a part of its territory.
The Nordic nations are once again at the top of the global happiness list this year, with Finland taking the top spot for the eighth consecutive year. Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, and the Netherlands are next in line.
Some of the top authorities and researchers in the field of well-being science collaborated to create the World Happiness Report. Data from the Gallup World Poll, which averaged people’s self-reported life assessments across a three-year period from 2022 to 2024, is used to fuel the happiness ranking.
Additionally, experts examined data on six important factors: corruption, freedom, charity, healthy life expectancy, social assistance, and gross domestic output per capita.
According to the document, the six variables can offer a deeper understanding and help explain variations among countries, even if the happiness ranking is based on the respondents’ subjective assessments of their own quality of life.
The 2025 World Happiness Report lists the following as Asia’s happiest countries:
Taiwan Singapore Vietnam Thailand Japan Philippines Republic of Korea Malaysia China Mongolia
Meal Sharing And Happiness:
Using data from Gallup, the report concluded that meal-sharing has an impact on subjective well-being that is “on par with the influence of income and unemployment,” and that people who share more meals with others report “significantly higher” levels of life satisfaction. Vietnam is another big winner this year, moving up the global happiness ranking from 54th in 2024 to 46th this year, a nearly 40-place jump from 83rd in 2020.
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
