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  Pushkin.

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  This year,

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  Finland has yet again been crowned the planet's happiest nation by the World Happiness Report.

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  Country rankings like these are usually the only thing people hear about when it comes to this annual report.

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  But here on the Happiness Lab, we like to go a bit deeper into the wellbeing science.

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  And so in the next episodes,

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  we'll be diving into what the report says about other pressing wellbeing issues.

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  Last time, we spoke to John Hellowell,

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  who's been working on the World Happiness Report since its inception.

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  He explained that this year's report focused not just on overall differences in happiness across nations,

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  but also on how happiness differs across each within a single country.

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  So we split the population into those born before 1965, boomers and their predecessors.

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  Those born after 1980 were then the millennials,

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  and Jen said, and then the intervening group of Gen X.

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  In Eastern Europe, the young are markedly more happy than their parents and grandparents.

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  But in the US, it's Gen Z who's having a rough time.

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  I wanted to look more deeply at these demographic quirks around the world.

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  So I tagged in the lead author of a different groundbreaking chapter in this year's World Happiness Report.

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  My name is Emily Willroth.

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  I am an assistant professor at Washington University in St.

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