Analysis of World Happiness Index (2015 - 2020)

Overview:

Finland was ranked the happiest country in the world, according to the World Happiness Report from 2021. The Nordic country scored 7.89 on a scale from 0 to 10. Two other Nordic countries, Iceland and Denmark, followed with a second and third place, respectively. The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The measurement of subjective well-being relies on three main indicators: life evaluations, positive emotions, and negative emotions.

Dataset:

World happiness report

The dataset for this analysis is collected from the Wikepedia. For data cleaning and prepeocessing details check the Notebook

About the World happiness report:

• The World Happiness Report ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be.
• The rankings are based on polling (Gallup World Poll) which looks at six variables: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and absence of corruption.
• The 2020 Report for the first time ranked cities around the world by their subjective well-being and looked into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect happiness.

About SDSN:

Sustainable Development Solutions Network

• The SDSN, launched in 2012, mobilizes global scientific and technological expertise to promote practical problem solving for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement.
• It was established under the auspices of the United Nations Secretary-General.
• The SDSN and the Bertelsmann Stiftung have been publishing the annual SDG Index & Dashboards Global Report since 2016.

Implementation:

libraries : matplotlib numpy pandas plotly

Highlights of the report:

Top Performers

• Finland is ranked as the world’s happiest nation for the third consecutive year.
• Nordic states dominated the top 10, along with countries such as Switzerland, New Zealand and Austria.
• Luxembourg edged into the 10th spot for the first time this year.

Worst Performers

• The countries at the bottom are those afflicted by violent conflicts and extreme poverty, with Zimbabwe, South Sudan and Afghanistan classified as the world’s least happy nations.

India’s Performance

• India, previously ranked at 140 dropped to 144.
• Its rank is way lower than its neighbours. Nepal is ranked 92, Pakistan is at 66, Bangladesh at 107 and Sri Lanka at 130.
• India is a new entrant to the bottom-fifteen group.

Tableau Dashboard:

Snippet of tableau dashboard

Checkout the complete dashboard here

Plotly dashboard:

Check the complete implementation index.py.
Design details can be found here

Learnings:

Analysis using Tableau
Making a dashnoard using Plotly Dash
Web scraping and data preprocessing

References:

Dash Overview

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