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Economic woes drive Botswana deeper down world’s unhappiest list

Tough:Botswana continues to slide down the list and this time was ranked below war-stricken countries such as the DRC and Ukraine
Tough:Botswana continues to slide down the list and this time was ranked below war-stricken countries such as the DRC and Ukraine

Botswana fell to its worst-ever performance in the latest World Happiness Report, being ranked 142 out of 147 countries according to data collected between 2022 and 2024, due mainly to citizens’ concerns about the weakening economy.

The World Happiness Report, based on the Gallup World Poll, was released on Thursday afternoon and indicates that Finland is again the world’s happiest country, the eighth time in a row that the Nordic country has topped the list.

Botswana, meanwhile, continues to slide down the list and this time was ranked below war-stricken countries such as the DRC and Ukraine or those plagued by poverty such as Somalia.

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