U.S. hits new low in World Happiness Report

I wonder what's happening with Switzerland, as it seem to also be dropping on the graph

Austerity.

Switzerland has been such an odd place where its population enjoys an enlightened high quality life funded on the back of the world’s shadiest wealth.

And in the midst of that is down to one final bank which if it collapsed is worth something like 20x the gdp of the nation in holdings.

So maybe the Swiss are waking up to how much more delicate their situation may be.

Switzerland has a slightly high suicide rate (not the best inverse metric of happiness but a correlation on unhappiness at least) for a country with such high standards of living, so if we look into suicide rates over time we also see a conundrum that over the past 20+ years the suicide rate is overall decreasing but has mostly flattened out. But from what I've observed anecdotally it still has problems like other developed countries with legacy industries declining (see: watchmakers and other artisanal crafts trades rather than mining) where boomers in the country are pretty miserable and that will probably be noticed in macro level statistics.