The US fell to its lowest happiness ranking ever, partly due to a rise in the number of Americans eating their meals alone, an annual UN-sponsored report said.

The US fell to 24th in the 2025 World Happiness Report, which highlighted issues like Americans eating alone and rising 'deaths of despair.'

Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order.