World Happiness Report life satisfaction, annual

Name: World Happiness Report life satisfaction, annual
Creator: World Happiness Report life satisfaction
License: https://ourworldindata.org/about
Keywords: survey, sentiment, development, country-risk, yearly, signals

Commercial use OKFreshLicense: CC-BY-4.0

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Global country-year panel of self-reported life satisfaction (Cantril ladder, 0-10) from the World Happiness Report (Gallup World Poll via Our World in Data), 2011-2025, 178 entities: the headline subjective-wellbeing series, with within-year happiness rank and year-on-year ladder-point change on every row.

Source: World Happiness Report life satisfaction
Rows: 2,270
Columns: 8
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Oct 4, 2026
Theme: social

Column	Type	Description
entity	string	Country or territory name as published by the World Happiness Report via Our World in Data. All 178 entities carry ISO alpha-3 codes in this file.
country_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for the entity.
year	integer	Observation year (World Happiness Report / Gallup World Poll; series starts 2011). (unit: year)
life_satisfaction	float	National average Cantril ladder score (0-10): respondents place their current life on a ladder from 0 (worst possible life) to 10 (best possible life). Higher is more satisfied. (unit: ladder points (0-10))
happiness_rank	integer	Within-year rank of life_satisfaction (1 = highest life satisfaction that year). (unit: rank)
yoy_change	float	Change in life_satisfaction versus the same entity's prior calendar year, in ladder points; null when the entity has no prior-year observation (Gallup does not survey every country every year). (unit: ladder points)
fetch_date	string	Date this snapshot was fetched (ISO date). (unit: date)
row_hash	string	Deterministic 12-hex row identity hash (entity\|year).

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entity	country_code	year	life_satisfaction	happiness_rank	yoy_change	fetch_date	row_hash
Afghanistan	AFG	2,011	4.258	141	—	2026-10-04	e5f5146a02f1
Africa	OWID_AFR	2,011	4.454	132	—	2026-10-04	31947138dc43
Albania	ALB	2,011	5.134	95	—	2026-10-04	78668d10655e
Algeria	DZA	2,011	5.368	76	—	2026-10-04	b3c33f047184
Angola	AGO	2,011	4.178	146	—	2026-10-04	3f40b8fd04f3
Argentina	ARG	2,011	6.242	43	—	2026-10-04	705d59dbd058
Armenia	ARM	2,011	4.474	130	—	2026-10-04	54a915c3ce55
Asia	OWID_ASI	2,011	4.983	101	—	2026-10-04	57474fee4cf3
Australia	AUS	2,011	7.345	10	—	2026-10-04	46444af17e31
Austria	AUT	2,011	7.227	14	—	2026-10-04	cc1b58c8891c

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/whr_happiness_intel/life_satisfaction_annual" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/whr_happiness_intel/life_satisfaction_annual").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/whr_happiness_intel/life_satisfaction_annual

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.

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World Happiness Report life satisfaction. (2026). World Happiness Report life satisfaction, annual [Data set, snapshot 20261004T141447Z-1283f3a6bae8, sha256 1283f3a6bae8]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-05, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/whr_happiness_intel/life_satisfaction_annual?snapshot=20261004T141447Z-1283f3a6bae8

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@misc{dz_whr_happiness_intel_life_satisfaction_an_1283f3a6,
  title        = {{World Happiness Report life satisfaction, annual}},
  author       = {{World Happiness Report life satisfaction}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/whr_happiness_intel/life_satisfaction_annual?snapshot=20261004T141447Z-1283f3a6bae8}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261004T141447Z-1283f3a6bae8, sha256 1283f3a6bae87e8a711ff5159b9d15b99d4144bdfe6825f892c86d1943b37f6a; accessed 2026-10-05}
}

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