1、2020Editors:John F.Helliwell,Richard Layard,Jeffrey D.Sachs,and Jan-Emmanuel De NeveAssociate Editors:Lara B.Aknin,Haifang Huang,and Shun WangTable of ContentsWorld Happiness Report 2020 Foreword .11 Environments for Happiness:An Overview .3 Helliwell,Layard,Sachs,&De Neve2 Social Environments for W

2、orld Happiness .13 Helliwell,Huang,Wang,&Norton3 Cities and Happiness:A Global Ranking and Analysis .47 De Neve&Krekel4 Urban-Rural Happiness Differentials Across the World .67 Burger,Morrison,Hendriks,&Hoogerbrugge5 How Environmental Quality Affects Our Happiness .95 Krekel&MacKerron6 Sustainable D

3、evelopment and Human Well-Being .113 De Neve&Sachs7 The Nordic Exceptionalism:What Explains Why the Nordic Countries are Constantly Among the Happiest in the World .129 Martela,Greve,Rothstein,&Saari Annex:Using a New Global Urban-Rural Definition,Called the Degree of Urbanisation,to Assess Happines

4、s .147 Dijkstra&Papadimitriou1ForewordThis is the eighth World Happiness Report.We use this Foreword,the first we have had,to offer our thanks to all those who have made the Report possible over the past eight years,and to announce our expanding team of editors and partners as we prepare for our 9th

5、 and 10th reports in 2021 and 2022.The first seven reports were produced by the founding trio of co-editors assembled in Thimphu in July 2011 pursuant to the Bhutanese Resolution passed by the General Assembly in June 2011,that invited national governments to“give more importance to happiness and we

6、ll-being in determining how to achieve and measure social and economic development.”The Thimphu meeting,chaired by Prime Minister Jigme Y.Thinley and Jeffrey D.Sachs,was called to plan for a United Nations High-Level Meeting on Well-Being and Happiness:Defining a New Economic Paradigm held at the UN