(20 Mar 2025)
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Mexico City – 20 March 2025
1. Various of people walking downtown Mexico City
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Diana López, social worker:
"I have noticed that Mexicans are very positive despite the circumstances, even if we have a bad day we always try to have a smile on our face and be happy."
3. People laughing
4. Various of friends having coffee
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alberto Cortes, accountant:
"We have many things that help this, the color of our country, the folklore, the gastronomy, regardless of the insecurity that we know there is, there are many other things that rescue the good things of our country."
6. Various of street vendor preparing corn cobs
7. Street food market
8. Family cooling off in a fountain
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cynthia Luque, historian:
"We (Latin Americans) are inclined to laugh at adversity and the Mexican makes fun of death, so if you are able to laugh at something that is so transcendental and that for other cultures is tragic and dramatic, then you will understand that the levels and the way in which happiness is understood is completely different here."
10. People laughing
11. Various of residents and tourists
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alfredo Roldán, sports instructor:
"It may be the happiest country in terms of parties and celebrations, yes, Mexicans are very festive but not as happy, because we are going through a time of much violence and a lot of bad news, so we are not 100% happy."
13. Various of signs about disappeared people
14. Various of people walking in downtown
STORYLINE:
Mexico ranked in the top 10 happiest countries in the world for the first time since the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford published its annual report.
The Latin American nation was 10th in the World Happiness Report 2025, published on Thursday.
That happened despite the level of violence across the country.
Finland topped the rankings for the eighth year in a row and other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings.
The report, which has been published since 2012, is done in partnership with the analytics firm Gallup and the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Researchers say that beyond health and wealth, some factors that influence happiness sound deceptively simple: sharing meals with others, having somebody to count on for social support, and household size.
In Mexico and Europe, for example, a household size of four to five people predicts the highest levels of happiness, the study said.
Country rankings were based on answers people give when asked to rate their own lives.
Believing in the kindness of others is also much more closely tied to happiness than previously thought, according to the latest findings.
AP Video by Fernanda Pesce
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