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World Happiness

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What:

This website showcases infographics built based on the World Happiness Report, which is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be.
The infographics presented below include an interactive chloropleth map, interactive charts, and an interactive data table.

When:

The World Happiness Report has been produced annually since 2012 by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network in partnership with the Ernesto Illy Foundation.
Go to worldhappiness.report/download for more information.

How:

The World Happiness reports present the results of analysis performed on data coming from the Gallup World Polls. The happiness rankings are based on answers to the main life evaluation question asked in the poll. This is called the Cantril ladder: it asks respondents to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10, and the worst possible life being a 0. They are then asked to rate their own current lives on that 0 to 10 scale.
The technologies used to build the inforgraphics presented here include Python, Pandas, Jupyter Notebook, d3.js, Leaflet.js, and GeoJSON.

Infographics

Interactive Chart

Interactive Results Chart

Countries are color-coded by continent. Change the X- or Y-axis variable and observe how the countries move along those axes. Hover over a country to get detailed information.

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Interactive World Happiness Map

Interactive World Map

Countries are color-coded depending on their ranking on the happiness ladder. Hover over a country to get detailed information. Yellow bubbles indicate the level of inequality in perceived happiness.

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Interactive Exploratory Chart

Interactive Data Table

This table contains raw data and can be filtered by rank, country, or year.

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Interactive Exploratory Chart

Interactive Exploratory Chart

Pick your variables among a large selection provided at the bottom and observe how countries align along those variables.

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The world happiness visualizations are built based on the World Happiness Report, which is an annual publication of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, powered by data from the Gallup World. Please subscribe if you would like to be notified whenever the visualizations are updated with new data.

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