According to a survey, people all over the world are living better lives and expressing more hope for the future, with the proportion of those who are “thriving” reaching a record high.
A median of 33 percent of adults in 142 countries last year rated their lives as being in good enough condition to qualify as thriving, up two percentage points from 2023, according to Gallup’s data released on Tuesday.
Adults were categorized as “suffering,” a median of 7%, down from a low of 11% in 2014.
The outcomes follow a trend of consistently rising satisfaction over the past two decades that Gallup has been asking people to assess the quality of their lives.
A median of 20% of adults were categorized as thriving in 2008, the year the world financial crisis struck.
Benedict Vigers, a senior global news writer at Gallup, said, “The world is not short of significant challenges, from conflicts to technological upheaval.”
More people in more countries say they live better lives today and have hope for the future, compared to fewer people who are suffering, even in this context.
North America, Australia, and New Zealand had medians of 49 percent, followed by North America, which had the highest level of life satisfaction, with a median of 66 percent of adults deemed to be prospering.
With medians of 11 percent, 15 percent, and 17 percent, respectively, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and MENA had the lowest perceptions of quality of life.
According to Gallup, the percentage of people in 12 countries who are prosperous increased by 20 points or more over the past ten years, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Hungary.
According to Gallup, perceptions remained consistent with improvements in the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), which measures life expectancy and income, even though the developed nations did not necessarily experience the greatest improvements in subjective well-being.
Gallup polled respondents to assess their perceptions of what they thought they would be like in five years, on a scale of 0 to 10.
Source: Aljazeera
Leave a Reply