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Happiness is a difficult thing to measure, but an initiative at the United Nations has been trying to figure it out. Every year since 2012, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has published its World Happiness Report—a study that examines the connections between happiness and development.
The United States ranked 15th on the list of the world’s happiest countries. Surprisingly, half of the 334 million Americans are experiencing a measurable level of loneliness, according to US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. “We now know that loneliness is a common feeling that many people experience. It’s like hunger or thirst. It’s a feeling the body sends us when something we need for survival is missing,” Murthy told the AP in an interview. “Millions of people in America are struggling in the shadows, and that’s not right. That’s why I issued this advisory to pull back the curtain on a struggle that too many people are experiencing.
In the Philippines, one in five Filipino youth aged 15-24 has considered ending their life. This is among the key findings of the 2021 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study , the fifth in the series of nationwide surveys on Filipino youth led by the University of the Philippines Population Institute and funded by the Department of Health.
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