Happiness Driver: Social Support

Contribution of social support 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)
1.2
-0.10pp vs 2024
Improving
0
of 147 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
147
±0.5pp band

Social support contribution

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Trend over time

Group average by period, 2019–2025.

0.40.71.11.41.7 2019202020212022202320242025
Europe & Central AsiaAmericasMiddle East & North AfricaEast Asia & PacificAdvanced / otherSub-Saharan AfricaSouth Asia

Movers

Biggest period-over-period changes.

Top risers

EntityNowChange
🇱🇧 Lebanon 1.1 +0.07pp
🇯🇲 Jamaica 1.6 +0.01pp
🇱🇸 Lesotho 1.1 +0.00pp

Top fallers

EntityNowChange
🇨🇳 China 1 -0.34pp
🇨🇬 Congo 0.6 -0.24pp
🇲🇦 Morocco 0.4 -0.23pp
🇲🇬 Madagascar 0.7 -0.23pp
🇹🇩 Chad 0.7 -0.23pp

By group

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Europe & Central Asia -0.10pp
Americas -0.10pp
East Asia & Pacific -0.10pp
Middle East & North Africa -0.10pp
Advanced / other -0.10pp
Sub-Saharan Africa -0.10pp
South Asia -0.10pp
GroupMembersAvgChange
Europe & Central Asia 42 1.5 -0.10pp
Americas 23 1.4 -0.10pp
East Asia & Pacific 13 1.3 -0.10pp
Middle East & North Africa 17 1.2 -0.10pp
Advanced / other 13 1.2 -0.10pp
Sub-Saharan Africa 33 0.8 -0.10pp
South Asia 6 0.6 -0.10pp