The 2024 UN World Happiness Report ranked Denmark the world’s second happiest country for a sixth consecutive year. Denmark came just behind Finland, a country that has now held the top spot for seven years in a row. You might tend to think of the former consistently being runner-up . But that would mean you probably don’t understand the Danish way of thinking.
上周发布的联合国世界幸福报告将丹麦连续第六年列为世界第二幸福国家。丹麦仅次于芬兰，芬兰现已连续七年位居榜首。你可能倾向于认为前者一直是老二。但这意味着你可能不理解丹麦人的思维方式。
People in Denmark have a way of reframing (重新定义) situations that others might see as less than ideal. Simply put, Danish people are taught to reframe negative situations into positive ones. For instance, the headlines about the World Happiness Report don’t focus on the fact that Danes came second to Finland again, but that Denmark came in first in the 60 years and older category. And news reports don’t dwell on the fact that Finland once again comes first, but instead highlight that the gap between the two countries was smaller this year than last.
丹麦人有一种重新定义其他人可能认为不太理想的情况的方法。简而言之，丹麦人被教导要将消极的情况重新构建为积极的情况。例如，关于世界幸福报告的头条新闻并没有关注丹麦人再次仅次于芬兰的事实，而是丹麦在60岁及以上的类别中排名第一。新闻报道并没有详述芬兰再次成为第一的事实，而是强调今年两国之间的差距比去年小。
Denmark achieved an overall score this year of 7.586. Finland’s was just a tiny bit higher at 7.804. These scores are mainly calculated from the Gallup World Poll (盖洛普全球民意调查), where around 100,000 people in 130 countries are asked to score their lives on a scale of zero to 10 — zero being the worst possible life and 10 being the best. The Happiness Report then takes an average of the numbers given by those surveyed in each nation across the last three years from 2021. Data is also analyzed from a country’s GDP per capita (人均), social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity and corruption.
丹麦今年取得了7.586的总分。芬兰的7.804点略高。这些分数主要是根据盖洛普世界民意测验计算的，在130个国家中，大约有100,000人被要求在0到10的范围内对他们的生活进行评分-0是最糟糕的生活，10是最好的生活。然后，幸福报告将2021年起的过去三年中每个国家的受访者提供的数字平均。数据还分析了一个国家的人均GDP，社会支持，健康预期寿命，自由，慷慨和腐败。
When I asked Catarina Lachmund, a senior analyst at Denmark’s Happiness Research Institute, what makes Finland happier than Denmark, she jokingly replied, “saunas (桑拿房).” Finland does have an impressive 3 million saunas for its population of 5.5 million, plus 188,000 lakes and forests that cover 75% of the land, according to Visit Finland. And then there are the Northern Lights, which you can see around 200 nights a year from Lapland, incidentally where Santa Claus lives.
当我问丹麦幸福研究所的高级分析师卡塔琳娜·拉赫蒙德，是什么让芬兰比丹麦更幸福时，她开玩笑地回答说: “桑拿”。芬兰人口550万，拥有令人印象深刻的300万桑拿，加上覆盖75% 土地的188,000湖泊和森林，然后是北极光，每年200个晚上你都可以从拉普兰看到，顺便说一句，圣诞老人住的地方也是在拉普兰。
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