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April 24, 2015, 4:32 PM

People in fancy costumes carry glasses of champagne while swimming in the chilly water during the annual swim in Lake Geneva, on New Year's day, Tuesday, 1 January 2008. (KEYSTONE/Dominic Favre)
#1 Switzerland: In this photo of the happiest country, people in fancy costumes carry glasses of champagne while swimming in the chilly water during the annual swim in Lake Geneva, on New Year’s day.  (KEYSTONE/Dominic Favre)
KEYSTONE/Dominic Favre
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - APRIL 07: Visitors sit in the geothermal waters at the Blue Lagoon close to the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik on April 7, 2014 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Since the financial meltdown of 2008 which saw the Icelandic economy come close to collapse the island has been slowly recovering and unemployment levels are beginning to return to normal. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
#2 Iceland: Visitors sit in the geothermal waters at the Blue Lagoon close to the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik on April 7, 2014 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images) (Getty Images/Matt Cardy)
Getty Images/Matt Cardy
People in medieval dress dance with children on the lawns of the historic Rosenberg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark Thursday Aug. 24, 2006 during a press preview for the month-long Golden Days renaissance event which will take place in Copenhagen in September. (AP Photo/John McConnico)
#3 Denmark: People in medieval dress dance with children on the lawns of the historic Rosenberg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark.   (AP Photo/John McConnico)
AP Photo/John McConnico
Fans at the Beyonce "Mrs. Carter Show World Tour 2013", on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at the Telenor Arena in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by Yosra El-Essawy/Invision for Parkwood Entertainment/AP Images)-
#4 Norway: Beyonce fans in the 4th happiest country get ready for a country in Oslo, Norway. - (Photo by Yosra El-Essawy/Invision for Parkwood Entertainment/AP Images)
Photo by Yosra El-Essawy/Invision for Parkwood Entertainment/AP Images
This May 7, 2011 photo shows David Stocker holding his 4-month-old child, Storm, in Toronto. Storm's parents, Kathy Witterick, 38, and Stocker, 39, of Toronto, have chosen to keep the gender of Storm a secret. They have shared Storms's gender only with their sons Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2, a close family friend and two midwives who helped deliver the baby. (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS/Toronto Star, Steve Russell)
#5 Canada: A father and baby play it up for the camera in Toronto.  (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS/Toronto Star, Steve Russell)
AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS/Toronto Star, Steve Russell
Customers having dinner at Muru Pop Down -restaurant at Tytyri mine in Lohja, Finland on Monday Sept. 10 2012. The award-winning chef, Niklas Ekblom, is opening a new restaurant in Finland that turns the idea of "pop-up" eateries upside-down: it's located 80 meters (260 feet) underground. Discerning food lovers are being served salted salmon, veal tenderloin snails cooked in Pernod, and apple crumble in the "pop-down" restaurant in a limestone mine in the small, southern town of Lohja, 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Helsinki. A four-course evening meal costs 128 euro ($160), including drinks and transportation down to the mine and back up. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Antti Aimo-Koivisto) FINLAND OUT
#6 Finland: Happy customers having dinner at Muru Pop Down -restaurant at Tytyri mine in Lohja, Finland. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Antti Aimo-Koivisto)
AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Antti Aimo-Koivisto
Fans celebrate as they watch the Dutch team win after penalties in the World Cup quarter finals soccer match between the Netherlands and Costa Rica at Strandzuid in Amsterdam, Saturday, July 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
#7 Netherlands: Fans celebrate as they watch the Dutch team win after penalties in the World Cup quarter finals soccer match between the Netherlands and Costa Rica at Strandzuid in Amsterdam, Saturday, July 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
AP Photo/Patrick Post
An unidentified young girl dressed up as Pippi Longstocking riding piggyback on her father at the 60th anniversary of the popular Swedish children's book heroine Pippi, in Stockholm, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005. (AP Photo/Jack Mikrut) SWEDEN OUT
#8 Sweden: An unidentified young girl dressed up as Pippi Longstocking riding piggyback on her father at the 60th anniversary of the popular Swedish children’s book heroine Pippi, in Stockholm.  (AP Photo/Jack Mikrut)
AP Photo/Jack Mikrut
Children sit in the trunk of a car eating hotdogs in Napier, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
#9 New Zealand: Children sit in the trunk of a car eating hotdogs in Napier, New Zealand. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa
A Christmas tree stands on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
#10 Australia: A Christmas tree stands on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
AP Photo/Rob Griffith
FILE - In this Friday, March 20, 2015 file photo, an Israeli mother and son look up at the sun wearing protective goggles to watch a partial solar eclipse in the town of Givatayim, near Tel Aviv, Israel. The partial eclipse was visible across Europe and parts of Asia and Africa, while sky-gazers in the Arctic were treated to a perfect view of a total solar eclipse as the moon completely blocked out the sun in a clear sky. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
#11 Israel: An Israeli mother and son look up at the sun wearing protective goggles to watch a partial solar eclipse in the town of Givatayim, near Tel Aviv, Israel.   (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File
Members of Costa Rica’s national soccer team are greeted by fans, at their homecoming celebration in honor of the team's World Cup showing, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Costa Rica made it to the quarter-finals of the World Cup, only to be ousted by the Netherlands in a penalty shootout. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
#12 Costa Rica: Members of Costa Rica’s national soccer team are greeted by fans, at their homecoming celebration in honor of the team’s World Cup showing, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
AP Photo/Esteban Felix
Louis Vogelstaetter from Lofer plays with a dog named Lili at the Loferer Alm in the Austrian province of Salzburg, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. Cold weather brought snow to higher regions in this alpine country. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
#13 Austria: Louis Vogelstaetter from Lofer plays with a dog named Lili at the Loferer Alm in the Austrian province of Salzburg.  (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson
In this April 10, 2015 photo, a couple, holding michelada drinks, dances to the rhythm of a Mexican Norteño band at the Texcoco Fair on the outskirts of Mexico City. Sometimes the trumpets and tubas of the roving brassy groups clash with each other as the play songs for about $15 each. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
#14 Mexico: In this April 10, 2015 photo, a couple, holding michelada drinks, dances to the rhythm of a Mexican Norteño band at the Texcoco Fair on the outskirts of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo
A crowd celebrates during the finale of the Boston Pops Fourth of July Concert at the Hatch Shell in Boston, Thursday, July 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
#15 United States: A crowd celebrates during the finale of the Boston Pops Fourth of July Concert at the Hatch Shell in Boston. The United States ranked 15th in the World Happiness Report.  (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
AP Photo/Michael Dwyer
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People in fancy costumes carry glasses of champagne while swimming in the chilly water during the annual swim in Lake Geneva, on New Year's day, Tuesday, 1 January 2008. (KEYSTONE/Dominic Favre)
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - APRIL 07: Visitors sit in the geothermal waters at the Blue Lagoon close to the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik on April 7, 2014 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Since the financial meltdown of 2008 which saw the Icelandic economy come close to collapse the island has been slowly recovering and unemployment levels are beginning to return to normal. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
People in medieval dress dance with children on the lawns of the historic Rosenberg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark Thursday Aug. 24, 2006 during a press preview for the month-long Golden Days renaissance event which will take place in Copenhagen in September. (AP Photo/John McConnico)
Fans at the Beyonce "Mrs. Carter Show World Tour 2013", on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at the Telenor Arena in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by Yosra El-Essawy/Invision for Parkwood Entertainment/AP Images)-
This May 7, 2011 photo shows David Stocker holding his 4-month-old child, Storm, in Toronto. Storm's parents, Kathy Witterick, 38, and Stocker, 39, of Toronto, have chosen to keep the gender of Storm a secret. They have shared Storms's gender only with their sons Jazz, 5, and Kio, 2, a close family friend and two midwives who helped deliver the baby. (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS/Toronto Star, Steve Russell)
Customers having dinner at Muru Pop Down -restaurant at Tytyri mine in Lohja, Finland on Monday Sept. 10 2012. The award-winning chef, Niklas Ekblom, is opening a new restaurant in Finland that turns the idea of "pop-up" eateries upside-down: it's located 80 meters (260 feet) underground. Discerning food lovers are being served salted salmon, veal tenderloin snails cooked in Pernod, and apple crumble in the "pop-down" restaurant in a limestone mine in the small, southern town of Lohja, 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Helsinki. A four-course evening meal costs 128 euro ($160), including drinks and transportation down to the mine and back up. (AP Photo/Lehtikuva, Antti Aimo-Koivisto) FINLAND OUT
Fans celebrate as they watch the Dutch team win after penalties in the World Cup quarter finals soccer match between the Netherlands and Costa Rica at Strandzuid in Amsterdam, Saturday, July 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
An unidentified young girl dressed up as Pippi Longstocking riding piggyback on her father at the 60th anniversary of the popular Swedish children's book heroine Pippi, in Stockholm, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005. (AP Photo/Jack Mikrut) SWEDEN OUT
Children sit in the trunk of a car eating hotdogs in Napier, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
A Christmas tree stands on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
FILE - In this Friday, March 20, 2015 file photo, an Israeli mother and son look up at the sun wearing protective goggles to watch a partial solar eclipse in the town of Givatayim, near Tel Aviv, Israel. The partial eclipse was visible across Europe and parts of Asia and Africa, while sky-gazers in the Arctic were treated to a perfect view of a total solar eclipse as the moon completely blocked out the sun in a clear sky. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
Members of Costa Rica’s national soccer team are greeted by fans, at their homecoming celebration in honor of the team's World Cup showing, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Costa Rica made it to the quarter-finals of the World Cup, only to be ousted by the Netherlands in a penalty shootout. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
Louis Vogelstaetter from Lofer plays with a dog named Lili at the Loferer Alm in the Austrian province of Salzburg, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. Cold weather brought snow to higher regions in this alpine country. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
In this April 10, 2015 photo, a couple, holding michelada drinks, dances to the rhythm of a Mexican Norteño band at the Texcoco Fair on the outskirts of Mexico City. Sometimes the trumpets and tubas of the roving brassy groups clash with each other as the play songs for about $15 each. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
A crowd celebrates during the finale of the Boston Pops Fourth of July Concert at the Hatch Shell in Boston, Thursday, July 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

WASHINGTON — The World Happiness Report for 2015 is out and while the U.S. isn’t No. 1, it did make the top 10 percent.

This is the third World Happiness Report released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network since 2012. Taking into account GDP, perceptions of corruption, health, freedom, social support and other key factors, the report ranks 158 countries.

According to the report, “The concepts of happiness and well-being are very likely to help guide progress towards sustainable development.”

The United States comes in at 15, making it one of the happiest countries. Switzerland takes the top spot. Syria, Burundi and Togo fall in the bottom three.

Click through the gallery to see images from the top 15 countries and visit the World Happiness Report website to learn more about the project.

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