Sources & licenses

Country scores: World Happiness Report 2026 Helliwell, J. F., et al. (2026). World Happiness Report 2026. University of Oxford: Wellbeing Research Centre. Data: Gallup World Poll. We use each country's life evaluation score (0–10) and rank as published. Data sharing

City values: World Happiness Report 2020, Chapter 3 city rankings World Happiness Report 2020, Chapter 3 "Cities and Happiness: A Global Ranking" (Gallup World Poll 2014–2018). This site adds half the difference between the city score and the country score to the 2026 country value (capped at ±0.8).

Seoul: Seoul Survey 2025 Source: Seoul Metropolitan Government, 2025 Seoul Survey (Seoul Open Data Plaza, Korea Open Government License Type 1). Seoul Open Data Plaza

UK cities and regions: Office for National Statistics Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Annual Population Survey personal well-being estimates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Adapted by adding each area's difference from the UK average life satisfaction to the country value. OGL v3.0

European cities: Quality of Life in European Cities 2023 Source: European Commission, DG REGIO, Report on the Quality of Life in European Cities 2023 (CC BY 4.0). We compare the share of people "satisfied to live in this city" with the average for cities in the same country and convert it into a score (adapted by this site). CC BY 4.0

Australian cities: Australian Bureau of Statistics Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, General Social Survey (CC BY 4.0). Adapted by adding each state's difference from the national average life satisfaction to the country value.

Chinese cities: 2025 "happiest cities in China" selection 来源：《瞭望东方周刊》"2025中国最具幸福感城市"调查推选结果（新华网，2025-12-09） No scores were published, so we use only the names of the selected cities and add +0.2 for them as a just-for-fun estimate. We don't reproduce the article. Original (Chinese)

U.S. Department of State travel advisories Source: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, travel.state.gov. Information on the Consular Affairs website is in the public domain; credit is given as requested. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. government, and we don't use the Department's seal. Each notice lists the date we checked it (accessed date) and drops off automatically 30 days later. Travel advisories

War and conflict situations Compiled by this site from the recent news reports and government statements cited in each notice. The categories (war, armed conflict, political unrest) are this site's own judgment.

AI replacement risk by job A just-for-fun estimate set by this site after grouping jobs and reviewing research coverage from around the world. It does not copy figures from any specific study.

Flag icons: country-flag-icons 1.5.11 (MIT)

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 @catamphetamine

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Fonts: Fraunces, Inter, Caveat (SIL Open Font License 1.1) Loaded from Google Fonts. OFL 1.1