India, March 19 -- Israel ranks 8th as per the latest World Happiness Report while Finland retains the top position for the tenth year in a row. Other Nordic nations, including Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, also feature in the top 10. Costa Rica is a notable entrant at 4th place. The Latin american country was ranked 23rd in 2023.

India, at the same time, ranks 116th in the report, behind war-hit countries like Israel Iran (97th). The annual report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, brings out rankings based on a three-year average of people's self-assessed life evaluations, where respondents rate their lives on a scale from 0 to 10.

The overall happiness score is derived from six key indicat...