[Report] World Happiness Report 2025

The World Happiness Report is the world’s foremost publication on global wellbeing and how to improve it.

We combine wellbeing data from over 140 countries with high-quality analysis by world-leading researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines.

By making the essential insights from wellbeing science accessible to all, we give everyone the knowledge to create more happiness for themselves and others.

The annual report is published by the University of Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and our Editorial Board.

In this year’s issue, we focus on the impact of caring and sharing on people’s happiness. Like ‘mercy’ in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, caring is “twice-blessed” – it blesses those who give and those who receive. In this report, we investigate both of these effects: the benefits to the recipients of caring behaviour and the benefits to those who care for others.

You can access the report here.