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There's not many Eastern European countries in the list (as in "former Eastern Bloc"), I can only see Czechia and Lithunia towards the bottom of the top 20. I w

There's not many Eastern European countries in the list (as in "former Eastern Bloc"), I can only see Czechia and Lithunia towards the bottom of the top 20. I would put Finland into the Northern Europe bucket, and only Lithunia had climbed one spot from 20 in 2023 to 19 in 2024.

082349872349872 3y ago
Also Slovenia, but eastern europe as a whole (even if the rest did not surpass) has been improving according to the report; I had been trying to spin it optimistically for the US as being less a decline there than improvement elsewhere in the world... https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/worldhappiness/viz/2024Draft/Figure2_1 https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/worldhappiness/viz/20... EDIT: here's 2023: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/worldhappinessreport/viz/WorldHappinessReport2023/Figure2_1 https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/worldhappinessreport/... {'czechia', 'slovenia', 'kuwait', 'united kingdom', 'costa rica', 'united arab emirates', 'lithuania', 'belgium'} which I'd group as: eastern europe CZ LT SI oil middle east AE KW western europe BE latin america CR airstrip one UK
- helij 3y ago
  Looking at the map and by my own knowledge I think Slovenia is not eastern but central europe.
doktrin 3y ago
I understand it's largely a cultural and historically rooted designation moreso than a purely geographic one, but it is mildly amusing that Czechia is often colloquially classed as being in "Eastern Europe" while the same is never true of Austria.
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