Happiness Driver: Freedom

Contribution of freedom to make life choices to the happiness score. World Happiness Report, 2019–2025.

Source: World Happiness Report (Gallup World Poll) Licence: CC BY 4.0 Unit: ladder pts Parsed: 2026-07-03 Open source ↗

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Avg (2025)
0.9
+0.10pp vs 2024
Improving
0
of 146 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
146
±0.5pp band

Freedom contribution

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2019–2025.

0.30.50.70.81 2019202020212022202320242025
Europe & Central AsiaAmericasMiddle East & North AfricaEast Asia & PacificAdvanced / otherSub-Saharan AfricaSouth Asia

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

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🇩🇿 Algeria 0.9 +0.41pp
🇹🇳 Tunisia 0.7 +0.27pp
🇭🇷 Croatia 0.7 +0.20pp
🇬🇲 Gambia 0.8 +0.20pp
🇬🇳 Guinea 0.9 +0.19pp

Top fallers

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By group

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Middle East & North Africa +0.20pp
Americas +0.10pp
East Asia & Pacific +0.10pp
Europe & Central Asia +0.10pp
Advanced / other +0.10pp
Sub-Saharan Africa +0.10pp
South Asia +0.10pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Americas 23 1 +0.10pp
East Asia & Pacific 13 1 +0.10pp
Europe & Central Asia 41 0.9 +0.10pp
Advanced / other 13 0.9 +0.10pp
Middle East & North Africa 17 0.8 +0.20pp
Sub-Saharan Africa 33 0.8 +0.10pp
South Asia 6 0.7 +0.10pp