Cheer up, the latest results for the happiest countries in the world for 2026 are in.

The rankings, known as the World Happiness Report and compiled by the Oxford Wellbeing Research Center, are based on a three year average of how residents in 140 countries rate their own lives, plus government social support, life expectancy figures, freedom and corruption statistics.

And the Scandinavian and northern countries rule.

Finland remains the happiest country — for nine of the last ten years — followed by Iceland and Denmark.

But there’s one surprise this year.

Costa Rica, a Latin American destination, made it into the top five happiest countries.