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Happy people
“How wonderful to have such blessings! Yes, great blessings belong to those who have the Lord as their God” (Psalm 144:15, ERV).
1. Listen and read the article. Then choose the correct option to answer the question below.
What is the text mainly about?
a. The top ten happiest countries in the world.
Happy people
Are you a happy person? What makes you happy? Do you know where the happiest people in the world live? Every year, the United Nations (UN) publishes the “World Happiness Report”, a document that contains a ranking of the happiest countries. The UN obtains the results by asking people of 156 countries questions that determine how happy they feel.
The survey measures people’s well-being, how they feel about their communities, their government and the freedom they enjoy.
According to this report, the winner is Finland, and this is not its first time! Finnish people ranked first twice in a row because they won the previous year, too! There are many factors that contribute to the happiness of the Finnish people, and it is interesting to see that money is not the most important of them. The government plays a vital role in contributing to its population’s well-being. Fighting corruption, improving basic public services and guaranteeing people’s personal freedom are some of the basic regular actions of the Finnish government system. Here is the list of the top ten happiest countries:
