The world happiness reports over since 2012 that they come out annually. Tend to be doing better on all sorts of other things you would expect. The main way you tell whether these measures are good is do they track the things you'd expect. They don't track political economic variables like money and quality governance as well as like satisfaction.
Philosopher and author Daniel Haybron of St. Louis University talks about his book, Happiness, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Happiness turns out to be a little more complicated than it sounds. Haybron discusses the good life and different philosophical perspectives on how to achieve happiness.