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Global ‘happiness gap’ shows Mexico way outpacing the US — here’s why

President Donald Trump often portrays Mexico as a disastrous country overrun by drug cartels and “bad hombres.”

But a newly released global ranking of life satisfaction tells a different story: Mexicans report being significantly happier than Americans.

The 2026 World Happiness Ranking, coordinated by the University of Oxford, is considered the gold standard of global life-satisfaction studies.

It’s largely based on a Gallup poll asking people in 147 countries how close they feel to living their “best possible life,” on a scale from 0 to 10.

This year, as in the past eight years, Finland ranked No. 1 as the happiest country, followed by Iceland and Denmark.

But the biggest surprises were Costa Rica, Israel and Mexico, all of which ranked among the world’s 12 happiest countries.

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Costa Rica ranked fourth — the highest ever for a Latin American country — while Israel came in eighth and Mexico 12th.

Further down the list are the United States (23), Brazil (32), Spain (41), Argentina (44), Chile (50), China (65), Colombia (68), Peru (72), Russia (79) and Venezuela (80).

At the very bottom: Afghanistan (147).

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