Why in news?

• This year marks the 10th anniversary of the report which evaluates levels of happiness by taking into account factors such as GDP, social support, personal freedom, and levels of corruption in each nation.
• The goal behind the report is to identify key determinants of well-being.
• The report 2022 ranked India 136th while Finland topped the charts for the fifth year in a row.
• The rankings of WHR 2022 use data from the Gallup World Poll surveys from 2019 to 2021.
• Among the bottom-five countries on the index are conflict-torn Afghanistan, Lebanon, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Botswana.
• Bhutan not listed in the 2022 WHR.
• Also, India was one among the countries that witnessed, over the past 10 years, a fall in life evaluations by more than a full point on the 0 to 10 scale.
• Criticism of the report: Happiness cannot be quantified based on a set of indices on a small area of the population and generalized.

United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network

• SDSN, set up in 2012, mobilizes global scientific and technological expertise to promote practical solutions for sustainable development, including implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Climate Agreement.