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Kenyans happiest people in Eastern Africa, report

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Kenya is a happier country in 2023, climbing up the rankings to position 111 from position 119 in 2022 in the World Happiness Report, a publication of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Solutions Network. With this leap, it has surpassed Uganda (113) as Eastern Africa's happiest country.

The report also indicates that global average life evaluations in the last three years (2020-2022), with rankings based on the Gallup World Poll, have been resilient despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Global benevolence remains 25 per cent higher than it was pre-pandemic.

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