Indonesia topped the inaugural Global Flourishing StudyVarious indexes try to gauge how humanity is faring mentally, measuring everything from happiness and wellbeing to life satisfaction. Harvard University, US, quizzed more than 200,000 people across 22 nations to build up a picture of human flourishing globally. Over time, the five-year study aims to identify what helps and hinders human flourishing. Indonesia is currently setting the benchmark: the country had the highest mean score in the inaugural study, followed by Mexico and the Philippines. Measuring wellbeing is a notoriously tricky business and the Global Flourishing Study has blind spots, namely its narrow scope of just 22 countries.