The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford published the World Happiness Report 2025. The focus of this year's report is the impact of caring and sharing on people's happiness. It includes factors such as giving money to charity, volunteering, and helping strangers. It tries to measure the degree of benevolence in each of the 147 countries that it evaluates.
The five highest ranked African countries are Mauritius (78), Libya (79), Algeria (84), South Africa (95), and Mozambique (96). Seven of the ten lowest ranked countries are in Africa: Lesotho (138), Comoros (139), DRC (141), Botswana (142), Zimbabwe (143), Malawi (144), and Sierra Leone (146).
