YEREVAN, MARCH 16, ARMENPRESS. Ahead of the Happiness Day defined by the UN (March 20), a new list of the happiest countries has been published. “Armenpress” reports Armenia ranks 121st among 157 countries.

The widespread interest in the World Happiness Reports, of which this is the fourth, reflects growing global interest in using happiness and subjective well-being as primary indicators of the quality of human development. Because of this growing interest, many governments, communities and organizations are using happiness data, and the results of subjective well-being research, to enable policies that support better lives.

This year, for the first time, the World Happiness Report gives a special role to the measurement and consequences of inequality in the distribution of well-being among countries and regions. Other factors influencing the index are GDP per capita, healthy life length, corruption and so on.

Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden are the top 10 happiest countries.

Georgia is the 126th, Azerbaijan is the 81st, and Iran is the 105th. Russia ranks 56th and the USA ranks 13th.

The bottom 10 are Madagascar, Tanzania, Liberia, Guinea, Rwanda, Benin, Afghanistan, Togo, Syria and Burundi.