article_snippet.sent: Britons are happier now than Britons were two years ago, a new study of global wellbeing found, but still ranks in at a relatively lowly 21st place.
article_snippet.sent: The 2015 World Happiness Report is the third of The 2015 World Happiness Report kind and is edited by a team of renowned academics and analysts - among them American economist Jeffrey Sachs and  head of the London School of Economics' 'wellbeing' programme, Richard Laynard.
article_snippet.sent: First published in 2012, a new study of global wellbeing uses a range of factors to determine how happy a nation is, ranging from purely domestic perspectives - such as GDP and life expectancy figures - to how a nation citizens view its citizens and its citizens country within the world at large.
article_snippet.sent: a new study of global wellbeing is the first to additionally break the statistics down by age and gender, however, with a new study of global wellbeing possible for readers to find, for example, that a country ranking relatively highly overall, has a hidden population of deeply unhappy young women concerned about equal rights and pay.
article_snippet.sent: One surprising anomaly, however, is Palestine, which came just below the midway point in a new study of global wellbeing at number 108, despite being ravaged by conflict.
article_snippet.sent: The idea of assessing nations by the citizens level of happiness, rather than simply by wealth, is something promoted by the EU, who consider it a more accurate representation of the population as a whole.
article_snippet.sent: While many of the study's headline findings were relatively predictable, the wellbeing test becomes far more interesting when experts being analysing the biggest rises and falls.
highlights_snippet.sent: UK ranks at a lowly 21, although Brits are happier now than back in 2012 .
  