The world witnessed the “charity stumbling” of kindness during the Covid-19 pandemic, which, with generous actions, remained more than 10 % higher than prenatal levels.
Annual Global Happiness Report I found that in 2024, works such as donation and volunteering were more frequent than in 2017-19 in all generations and almost all international regions, although it decreased since 2023.
The help of strangers was still 18 % on average of the prenatal era.
Professor Lara Aknin, Canadian Professor of Social Psychology and one of the report editors, said that the number of people who reported the help of strangers to increase the intensity of the year 2020 and the figures lasted.
“I think a lot of people have an interest in helping others, but sometimes they are ashamed; they do not want to overcome their welcome. Covid-19 explained abundantly that many of us need help from our neighbors and friends.
“Therefore, people may have felt more committed to commitment and low levels of discouragement, knowing that their help will welcome.”
She said that the data in the coming years will help in revealing whether the trend of charity here is to stay. “It may be one of the really optimistic possibilities that we have now opened our eyes to the needs of others and the emotional rewards that we get from helping others, and this can enhance this positive cycle between helping others and well -being.”
The report said that the researchers “shocked the length of the increases [in benevolence] The appearance of the first time in 2020 “, and” the size and continued increases in charitable actions “means that even in 2024, four years after the appearance of Covid, it was still 10 % higher.
The Global Happiness Report is an annual luxury scale across more than 140 countries coordinated by the Welfare Research Center at Oxford University, and the Gallup Analysis Company. United Nations Sustainable Development Network.
This year’s edition confirmed the tendency of people to be very pessimistic about the kindness of others. A study across 40 countries on the number of times the portfolio that was dropped was returned that the rate was high as people expected – and the governor was likely to be returned if it contained money.
John F Hilwell, economist at the University of British Columbia and a founding editor for the global happiness report, said that the data from studying the portfolio “confirms that people are happier as they believe that people care about each other.”
The report also found that sharing meals with others was very linked to positive luxury in all international regions, and that those who participated in more meals with others have benefited much higher levels of life and social support.
But eating alone has become more prevalent, especially among young people, and in the United States, there has been a 53 % increase in eating alone since 2003 – one of the reasons why the country has fallen into the classification of happiness.
The annual happiness rankings of the report led the northern countries, where Finland ranked first out of 147 countries in the eighth in a row, while Costa Rica and Mexico, in the sixth and ten places, respectively, entered the first ten positions for the first time.
The United States fell to its lowest location ever in the twenty-fourth, and closely followed the United Kingdom in the twenty-third place-the lowest place since the 2017 report.
Switzerland, Canada and Australia were removed from the first ten places, and the classifications of these years this time “No large industrial forces ranked”.
The report concludes: “In general, Western industrial countries are now less happy than they were between 2005 and 2010.” He added that the decrease in happiness and social confidence in Europe and the United States partially led to a rise in political polarization and combating the system.
“The report this year leads us to look beyond the traditional determinants such as health and wealth,” said Jean Edmanuel de Neve, director of Oxford Welfare Research Center and editor of the World Happiness Report.
“It turns out that the participation of meals and confidence in others is stronger predictions of luxury than expected. In the era of social isolation and political polarization, we need to find ways to bring people around the table again – doing so is it very important to our individual and collective well -being.”