Kenyans are happier in 2023
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- 23 Mar 2023
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Kenyans have high levels of happiness than their East African counterparts, according to World Happiness Report that also ranked the country at position 111 out of 137 countries. This was also an improvement from position 119 in 2022. Uganda was ranked at position 113, while Tanzania emerged position 129.
As the world marked International Happiness Day yesterday, it emerged that global happiness has not taken a hit in the three years of the Covid-19 pandemic. Life evaluations from 2020 to 2022 have been “remarkably resilient,” the report says, with global averages basically in line with the three years preceding the pandemic.
“Even during these difficult years, positive emotions have remained twice as prevalent as negative ones, and feelings of positive social support twice as strong as those of loneliness,” said John Helliwell, one of the authors of the World Happiness Report.
The report further revealed that people self-reported significantly higher levels of benevolence — acts of kindness — than before the pandemic. Benevolence is about 25 per cent higher than it was pre-pandemic. “Benevolence to others, especially helping of strangers, which went up dramatically in 2021, stayed high in 2022,” he added.
Social support The study found there was a ‘significant increase’ in the number of people reporting the happiness effect of ‘having someone to count on in times of trouble’. Globally, 80 per cent of survey respondents said they had someone to count on, which was one of the factors that boosted average life satisfaction during the pandemic years, analysts said. Read More…
