Belize, a nation on the eastern coast of Central America, with Caribbean Sea shorelines to east and an untamed dense jungle to the west, offshore the massive Belize Barrier Reef, dotted with hundreds of stunning islets and cays, a country boasting a rich cultural heritage and biodiversity has come out as the Caribbean's happiest country, according to World Happiness Report.
World Happiness Report is a famous publication which explores the factors contribuiting to human wellbeing that contains articles and rankings of national happiness, based on respondent ratings of their own lives, published by the Wellbeing Reasearch Centre at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Gallup, American multinational analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C., and the UN Sustainable Devrlopment Solutions Net.
The World Happiness Report assesses national happiness using six key factors such as GDP per capita, social support, and healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and perception of corruption.
The Publication list only covers 100 countries, and typically excludes some of the regions's smaller countries, along with nations that are either overseas territories or part of larger kingdoms or states.
This special report gets in data from large - scale surveys that asks repondents to grade their quality of life on scale of 0 to 10. In all, the survey reaches about 1.000 people in each country and this 2025 ranking comes from an amalgamation of data from the previous three years, according to the World Happiness Report.
Belize was ranked 25th overall in the world, just ahead of Poland and right behind the United States of America and at the top in the Caribbean Community.
The second Caribbean nation in the list was Trinidad and Tobago, which was ranked 70th, followed by Jamaica at 73 and the Dominican Republic at 76.
The Central American country came in first globally in the freedom index, which also respondents whether they are "satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you do with your life" and the country came out on other factors like 57th on the social support questions and 96th on generosity, among other fields.
Belize is a country which has a population of about 400.000, a small countrywith a diverse population, with the majority being Mestizo, followed by Creoles, Maya, Garifuna and other groups like Chinese asnd Mennonites, a melting pot with various cultures blending together in total harmony.
The country is also known for its music as the "brukdown" a musical Creole style consisting in a melodic mix of calypso featuring percussion and rhythms form drums, banjos and different dances performed in several events and celebrations such as the Little Bull, the Maypole, Bottles Dance, Mayan Deer Dance among others.
Belize diverse food, a stunning natural scenery in the region, along its striking shorelines and cays like the famous Ambergris Caye, a famous private residential island, since 2019, a pristine interior with lush jungles are other spots of this little paradise recognized as the Caribbean’ happiest country.
Link - https://www.caribjournal.com/2025/04/24/belize-happiest-country-caribbean/
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