48 countries will compete at the World Cup this summer. Here's the ranking of them, from the worst to the favorites to win it all.

US News & World Report ranked the best countries in the world. In 2026, the US fell short of the top 10, while many European ...

Finland tops the list of the world’s happiest countries for the ninth year. See the full ranking, key trends and where the United States lands this year. Finland just keeps going. The 2026 World ...

The 2026 World Cup is the first to feature 48 nations. That’s a lot of teams! If not for the increase in 16 nations, we may not have gotten debutantes like Uzbekistan and Cape Verde, or the returns of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If happiness were an Olympic event, the Nordic countries would be guaranteed a spot on the podium. Actually, all three spots on ...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has expanded to 48 teams for the first time, an uptick from the previous number of 32. Qualifying was already a difficult process due to the limited spots across confederations ...

This Pew Research Center report describes levels of religious diversity in 201 countries and territories. We measure how evenly each country’s population is distributed among seven groups: Christians, ...