World’s best country to be a young person is much cheaper than the UK
An Eastern European country has been crowned as the happiest country in the world to be under 30 but the UK didn't fare as well.
The World Happiness Report measures happiness and wellbeing around the world to find the globe’s happiest countries. Finland managed to top 2024’s list for the seventh year in a row.
But this year, the team also looked at happiness levels based on age group and the results were slightly different.
While Finland still made the top 10, another European country ranked as the happiest place to be a young person.
In some countries, there was a vast happiness gap between older and younger generations with young people much happier in Croatia and much less happy in the USA.
So where is the world’s best place to be a young person?
Where are people under 30 the happiest?
Lithuania topped the ranking with the happiest people aged between 18 and 30 in the world. The Baltic country is one of Europe’s most affordable destinations with attractions including a Devil Museum and a walkable capital city.
Israel had the second happiest under 30s but the research was undertaken between 2021 and 2023 so the Israel-Palestine conflict may have affected happiness since then.
Serbia rounded off the top three while Iceland and Denmark also made the top five. One of these countries also had the world’s happiest over 60s.
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Which country is the worst for under 30s?
Afghanistan had the world’s least happy under 30s with Lebanon close behind in the ranking.
The other three least happy countries for under 30s were in Africa with Sierra Leone, Congo and Zimbabwe making the bottom five.
The UK didn’t perform that well for under 30s ranking in 32nd place overall. People over 60 were happier than those under 30 in the UK.
Top 10 happiest countries for young people
- Litauen
- Israel
- Serbien
- Island
- Dänemark
- Luxemburg
- Finnland
- Rumänien
- Niederlande
- Czechia