Happiness Rankings Reveal Global Shifts and a Growing Generational Gap

The latest World Happiness Report shows that while the world’s happiest countries remain largely unchanged, deeper shifts are underway beneath the surface. In this episode, Ilana Ron-Levey, managing director at Gallup, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, professor at the University of Oxford and director of its Wellbeing Research Centre, explore how global happiness rankings are evolving, a growing generational divide and what these trends reveal about how people experience their lives today.

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Happiness Rankings Reveal Global Shifts and a Growing Generational Gap is an episode from The Gallup Podcast by GALLUP®.

This episode is 26:47 long.

This episode was published on Mar 19, 2026.

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