The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The World Happiness Report 2017 ranks 155 countries by their happiness levels.

Report editors:

John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey D. Sachs

Chapters and their authors:

• Chapter 1: Overview
  Authors: John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Chapter 2: Social Foundations of World Happiness
  John F. Helliwell, Haifang Huang, Shun Wang
• Chapter 3: Growth and Happiness in China, 1990-2015
  Richard A. Easterlin, Fei Wang and Shun Wang
• Chapter 4: ‘Waiting for Happiness’ in Africa
  Valerie Møller, Benjamin Roberts, Habib Tiliouine and Jay Loschky
• Chapter 5: The Key Determinants of Happiness and Misery
  Andrew Clark, Sarah Flèche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee and George Ward
• Chapter 6: Happiness at Work
  Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward
• Chapter 7: Restoring American Happiness
  Jeffrey D. Sachs