According to the text, the World Happiness Report 2022
Questões de Inglês na Unicamp 2023
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World’s happiest ranking goes to
Finland for fifth year in a row
Finland was crowned the happiest country in the world for the fifth consecutive year, with a score significantly ahead of its peers in the World Happiness Report 2022 ranking, published by a body linked to the United Nations. However, the authors detected, on average, a long-term moderate upward trend in stress, worry, and sadness in most countries, as well as “a slight long-term decline in the enjoyment of life,” they wrote.
The report uses global survey data to report on how people evaluate their own lives in more than 150 countries around the world, with the ranking based on a three-year average. Key variables that contribute to explaining people’s life evaluations include healthy life expectancy, generosity, social support, freedom to make life choices, perceptions of corruption, and the gross domestic product per capita (an indicator that measures a country’s economic output per person, that is calculated by dividing the total gross domestic product of a country by its population).
“World leaders should take heed,” Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, said. “Politics should be directed as the great sages long ago insisted: to the well-being of the people, not the power of the rulers.”
(Kati Pohjanpalo. www.bloomberg.com, 18.03.2022. Adaptado.)
Gabarito: D
27. (Unicamp 2023) According to the text, the World Happiness Report 2022
- defines “enjoyment of life” as the most significant feeling that contributes to happiness.
- is unreliable since it collected subjective data without scientifically established criteria.
- showed that Finland is a surprisingly happy country although its score is not so high.
- ranks countries based on global survey information on how people appraise their lives according to some key variables.
- identified a slight increase in happiness among the 150 countries surveyed.