Colleague researchers from all over the world can take responsibility for a part of the World Database of Happiness. Currently the following colleagues are involved.
| Name | Affiliation | Responsible for section on | Term (4 years) |
| Adriani (Yufi) (dr.) | State Islamic University Jakarta, Indonesia | Happiness in Indonesia | 2020-2024 |
| Agrawal (Shruti) | PhD student, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India | Effects of happiness on social bonds | 2021-2025 |
| Akilli (Serkan) (dr.) | Nuh Naci Yazgan University, Turkey | Happiness and Public Policy | 2020-2024 |
| Ballas (Dimitriz) (prof. dr.) | Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands | Happiness in Regions | 2018-2022 |
| Bajaj (Badri) (dr.) | Jaypee Institute for Information Technology, Noida, India | Happiness in India | 2020-2024 |
| Bothma (Elizabeth) | Assistant professor, North West University, South Africa | Happiness in South Africa | 2018-2022 |
| Brule (Gael) (dr.) | Post-doctoral fellow University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) | Happiness and Sustainability | 2020-2024 |
| Buket Kanlioglu (Melodi) | PhD Student, Marmora University, Istanbul, Turkey | Happiness in Turkey | 2020-2024 |
| Chekola (Mark) (prof. dr.) | Emeritus professor, University of Minnesota, Dpt. of Philosophy | Bibliography of Happiness, section Philosophy of Happiness | 2018-2022 |
| Dias (Paolo) (prof. dr.) | Professor of psychology. Catholic University of Braga, Portugal | Happiness and School | 2020-2024 |
| Elsas (Susanne) (dr.) | Researcher at State Institute for Family Research (ifb) at University of Bamberg, Germany | Happiness and single parenthood | 2021-2025 |
| Hussain (Azhar) (dr.) | Associate professor, Dpt of Social Sciences & Business Roskilde University, Denmark | Happiness and income/poverty | 2021-2025 |
| Jantsch (Antje) (dr.) | Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany | Happiness and private wealth | 2018-2022 |
| Mitas (Ondrej) (dr.) | Academy for Tourism, Breda University for Applied Sciences, Netherlands | Happiness and Leisure | 2020-2024 |
| Kamasaka (Akiko) (prof. dr.) | Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan | Happiness in Japan | 2016-2020 |
| Nurdinova (Shoirakhon) (dr.) | Namangan State University, Uzbekistan | Happiness of housewives | 2021-2025 |
| Salahodjaev (Rauf) (prof. dr.) | Director at ERGO Analytics / Professor at Tashkent State Economics University and AKFA University | Happiness in Uzbekistan | 2021-2025 |
| Samavati (Sahar) | PhD student urban design Tarbiat Modarres University, Teheran Iran | Happiness and urban design | 2020-2024 |
| Sharma (Nidhi) (dr.) | Assistant Professor (Economics), Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur | Happiness in Regions | 2021-2025 |
| Tadic (Maja) (dr.) | Researcher Pilar Institute, Zagrb, Croatia | Happiness in Croatia | 2018-2022 |
| Tambyah (Siok Kuan) (dr.) Tan (So Jiuan) (dr.) | National University of Singapore, Singapore | Happiness in Singapore | 2018-2022 |
| Paul Thomas | Economist, India | Happiness and Modernity | 2020-2024 |
| Vargas (Hector) (dr.) | Lecturer, Talca University, Chile | Happiness in Chile | 2018-2022 |
| Wong (Paul) (dr.) | Research Institute for Flourishing and suffering, Canada | Happiness and perceived meaning | 2020-2024 |
Go to Arrangements for associated researchers