Friday, December 12, 2025

World Happiness Report: Older generation the least happy

The saying “the longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes” doesn’t appear to hold true in Botswana, where adults are the least happy, according to a recent report. And spoiler alert, the youth are not that happy either.

With a score of 3.383, Botswana ranks 137th out of 143 countries, one spot higher than Zimbabwe, according to the World Happiness Report’s annual rating of the world’s happiest countries.

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