Finland has topped a worldwide happiness ranking for the second year straight. 

It beat Nordic companions Denmark, Norway and Iceland in a positioning of 156 nations by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. 

Bliss Scoreboard 

The hole between the best and base nations is wide 

The positioning saw the U.S. drop one spot, to nineteenth, while individuals in South Sudan were the least cheerful. 

The outcomes depend on a normal of three years of overviews taken by Gallup somewhere in the range of 2016 and 2018 and incorporate factors, for example, total national output, social help from loved ones, sound future, opportunity to settle on life decisions, liberality, saw defilement and late feelings - both cheerful and pitiful. 

As indicated by the report distributed on Wednesday, Finland has seen unobtrusive however enduring increases since 2014, and the nation is currently "altogether ahead" of different nations in the best 10, the analysts said. 

The information "offer the world's administrations and people the chance to reconsider open arrangements just as individual life decisions, to raise bliss and prosperity," said Jeffrey Sachs, chief of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. "We are in a period of rising pressures and negative feelings and these discoveries point to fundamental difficulties that should be tended to."