At the , our mission is to find the charities that generate the most happiness for the money donated to them. We do this because we think happiness matters and we want to help donors maximise the philanthropic bang for their buck. However, people are often surprised when they learn that we don’t recommend – or […]
With the release of the 2025 World Happiness Report, the focus has been on the top countries in the rankings. They don’t mention trends except for highlighting “In general, the western industrial countries are now less happy than they were between 2005 and 2010.” But we care about world happiness. So, we think it’s worth […]
Looking for the latest rankings? See our blog post about the 2026 World Happiness Report. Our friends at the World Happiness Report have just published their 2025 rankings, based on self-reported happiness. We also wrote a chapter for the report! Read on to learn more. Once again, the Nordic countries claim the top spots, with Finland retaining […]
As the only organisation looking to apply wellbeing science to improve happiness globally, we’ve been analysing the recent announcement of USAID funding withdrawal to understand what it means for donors who trust us to guide their giving towards having maximum impact. Understanding the Impact of Closing USAID The United States has historically been the world’s […]
Your feedback is invaluable to us. We aim to produce rigorous and useful research for decision-makers. In order to do that, it would really help us to know what you thought of our work in 2022. So, we’d be immensely grateful if you could complete our annual impact survey. Most questions are multiple-choice and all […]
Academic papers Human wellbeing and machine learning Standard regression models explain surprisingly little of the variation in wellbeing, limiting our ability to predict it. In response, Oparina et. al assess the potential of machine learning to help us better understand wellbeing by analysing wellbeing data on over a million respondents from Germany, the UK, and […]