

Erev Passover
Passover (CLOSED)
Memorial Day (CLOSED)
Independence Day (CLOSED)
Labor Day (CLOSED)
Erev Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah (CLOSED)
Rosh Hashanah (CLOSED)
Erev Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur (CLOSED)
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving (day after)
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day (CLOSED)
Bhutan is known for using an unconventional measure of development since 1972: Gross National Happiness (GNH). Rather than using traditionally narrow economic criteria, Bhutan assesses its well-being on the basis of sustainable and equitable socio-economic development, environmental protection, promotion of culture, and good governance. Bhutan’s use of the GNH principles helped mobilize its whole population to avoid even a single COVID-19 death in 2020. Its positive experience offers lessons for other countries and spawned the World Population Review’s Happiness Report in 2002, which assesses the level of happiness in 149 countries.