How Finland Became the World's Happiest Country

"Oh look it's the happiest country! I wonder if being one of the largest consumers of antidepressants helps with that" -Paul from Geography Now, talking about Denmark

the secret is just that the depressed people become un-depressed by going in the sky

The debt to gdp ratio is 90-95% of gdp and they have an aging population

Just don’t make too much income or you will be paying 51.8% taxes

over 400,000 Finns (roughly 7% to 8% of the country's population) are reimbursed for antidepressant medications each year. Only 5M total population

Well, im not that happy. I only go back to Finland for holidays. Then very happy, but very happy to leave.

Don’t the Finns have a huge suicide rate per capita?

Mysterious. I give Finland this top spot, but anyone who has traveled in Scandinavia will notice that the Swedes are always smiling, while I have never seen a Finn smile. There is a comical case of "lost in translation" here. In Finland, happy means "satisfied". In countries like Sweden, Norway and Denmark, "happy" means overjoyed, that we dance on the table with pure joy. A certain difference.

4:35 Another Historical Accomplishment of Finland: Defeating Russia

These gallups are full oh shit, most fins are not ok and not happy. I'm apaled that this narrarive is being circulated in intrnet.

when he said this video is sponsored by surfshark I began skipping 😂

You know why they're the happiest? THEY MADE MY SUMMER/WINTER CAR!

Australia????

Usually the happiest and most well developed countries are the ones with small population density, it's easier to admistrate which leads to less corruption

trust trust trust, lmfao. yes. trust YOU

Tampere probably has the WORST road arrangements ever (coming from Tampere) Its seriously the worst

Is the poverty rate now 12.2%?

6:48 Hungary: "My cousin is a lucky bastard!"

I have a theory that the rest of the world is makeing Finland into a sort of legend.

Happyest country for 9 years
The education system
The nature and clean water
How fines work in favor of everyday people

They ase setting Finland as an example so they can manipulate others to try to be like finland.

Feel free to add if you have any questions or to add to the theory

Women having equal opportunities in jobs, wage, and power in politics as much as men, gives great results. Happiest country in the world.

Let me tell you something about finnish language :)
You spell finnish words exactly how they are written like if you say in finnish my name is ”minun nimeni on” you say it exactly how it is written. What makes finnish so hard is that we have locative forms. If u wanna say you’re at the beach you say: minä olen rannalla. But if you wanna say you’re at the mall you say: minä olen kauppakeskuksessa. See how the last word ends differently. That is beacuse of our locative forms. Our words have 15 different endings let me give you an example of the word house : talo, taloa, talon, talossa, talolla, talolle, talolta, talosta, taloksi, talona, taloon, taloineen, talotta and taloin. If you are a finnish person you would naturally use the correct form but if ur not you have to learn all of those forms plus those forms are in EVERY WORD. Like the word me: minä, minun, minut, minussa, minulla, minulle, minulta, minusta etc. And in finnish like in any other language there is plural form in every word. Also no one in finnish talks like how they write like word ”me” is in book language ”minä” but when a finnish person talks they say ”mä”. So finnish is hard👍

Think finnish hard try welsh

Garden grows well without any weeds

Looking at the suicide rate, I think it's just that all the sad people kill themselves before they fill out the survey.

As a finnish person I LOVE the weather people complain about it but i like the snow then trust in the goverment THEY STOLE 23 CENTS FROM ME WHEN BUYING IRTOKARKKI OR CANDY anyway I love it here its over all good in everrithying except I hate the language

SOS Finlandia genocidas a Uruguay 🇺🇾 SOS genocidio eucaliptos SOS

dumb happy

Lots of lovely landscape, they also have Sisu and men who can chase away bears by swearing at them.

theres no way people actually believe in those stupid ratings

Again today

Yeahhh, as an American, we will embargo that country for centuries, just so we can make them our little example. That embargo has been compared to that of a siege, and we will only worsen relations. America doesn't care about making sure that Cubans have quality of life, they just want to brutalize and make an example of the Cuban people. I live in a predominantly Cuban area, most of which fled during Batista's rule. American government needs to back off from a small, starving, Socialist country because of a grudge. Wish I had even your Social Democracy in South Florida, its rough here and government corruption is to blame.

I launghed so hard when i saw and readed the road sign. It says ”Fat fish lakes” in two languages. Finnish and Sami.😂

Todo por Klamydia.

Yes, i'm very Happy my country 👌♥️🖐️〰️〰️🤩

would you like some copper? lol

Why is there a Polar bear to reprecent Finland 🙂‍↕️

Mun nimi mainittu nyt torille PERKELE!!!

As an American who lives in Columbus Ga, I can confirm our city looks a lot like Finnish cities, just the trees are greener, and I'm pretty happy.

While the video makes some really good points, especially relating to the physical space we live in, my view as a psychologist Finn is that we Finns are happy because we do not fake happiness, unlike most of the world. We accept the darkness well, even embrace it, and the depressive nature of life. Embracing that darker side and expressing it lets us let that feeling go, rather than holding it in. In other cultures, there might be darkness, but you're not allowed to show it or let it out at all; you have to act happy to save face. You could say that, in Jungian psychology, we have integrated well with our shadow and made it visible in our culture. Being as murky as we are allows us not hold it in so much.

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Nature might be the biggest factor in happiness index

lmao finland has worlds highest tax and we were fine with it while we were a wellfare country but those days are gone xD things have gone to sht, most of us are poor, drugs are such a everyday thing that they are easier to find than alcohol after 9pm, goverment keeps doing sht desisions all the time and stopped asking the population about things like joining nato, no election was held because 2 were held during the war and both were no and suddenly goverment desided 80% of fins wanted to join nato and forced us there... such a shtty direction we are going and every goverment is worse than the last one and keeps fking up our lives more and more... oh yah and safety getting worse and worse in here + finland being happiest nation is one of the biggest jokes in here and our saying is that we are happiest because all the depressed people keep unaliving themselfs xD but reality is we have too many depressed people in here and we arent voting for anything because voting pres wont matter he has no power in here and voting for goverment is done because no matter who we vote every goverment keeps 1 upping themselfs on how to ruin our country so its useless nowadays xD butyah its rarer to find an happy person in here than a depressed person and thats just a fact :D

lmao finland has worlds highest tax and we were fine with it while we were a wellfare country but those days are gone xD things have gone to sht, most of us are poor, drugs are such a everyday thing that they are easier to find than alcohol after 9pm, goverment keeps doing sht desisions all the time and stopped asking the population about things like joining nato, no election was held because 2 were held during the war and both were no and suddenly goverment desided 80% of fins wanted to join nato and forced us there... such a shtty direction we are going and every goverment is worse than the last one and keeps fking up our lives more and more... oh yah and safety getting worse and worse in here + finland being happiest nation is one of the biggest jokes in here and our saying is that we are happiest because all the depressed people keep unaliving themselfs xD but reality is we have too many depressed people in here and we arent voting for anything because voting pres wont matter he has no power in here and voting for goverment is done because no matter who we vote every goverment keeps 1 upping themselfs on how to ruin our country so its useless nowadays xD butyah its rarer to find an happy person in here than a depressed person and thats just a fact :D

lmao finland has worlds highest tax and we were fine with it while we were a wellfare country but those days are gone xD things have gone to sht, most of us are poor, drugs are such a everyday thing that they are easier to find than alcohol after 9pm, goverment keeps doing sht desisions all the time and stopped asking the population about things like joining nato, no election was held because 2 were held during the war and both were no and suddenly goverment desided 80% of fins wanted to join nato and forced us there... such a shtty direction we are going and every goverment is worse than the last one and keeps fking up our lives more and more... oh yah and safety getting worse and worse in here + finland being happiest nation is one of the biggest jokes in here and our saying is that we are happiest because all the depressed people keep unaliving themselfs xD but reality is we have too many depressed people in here and we arent voting for anything because voting pres wont matter he has no power in here and voting for goverment is done because no matter who we vote every goverment keeps 1 upping themselfs on how to ruin our country so its useless nowadays xD butyah its rarer to find an happy person in here than a depressed person and thats just a fact :D

Meanwhile their suicide rate

And we cooked soviet union on the casualtie and soldier scale because we had so much less and still killed much more soviet soldiers than soviets killed us

As a Finn, it's Super fun to live here, i like The Finnish winter. And the summer, in the Cottage with friends. What else do i say, there's so much to tell.

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