Poll released by Gallup On Tuesday, he found the world “more sad, anxious, and more stressed” in 2021 than in the previous year, pushing the “negative experience index” to a record 33 points in US President Joe Biden’s first year in office.
Gallup’s annual Global Problems Survey includes adult respondents from 122 countries. In 2021, 42 percent described themselves as “worried,” 41 percent as “stressed,” 28 percent as “sad,” and 23 percent as “angry.” 31 percent said they were experiencing severe physical pain.
These numbers represent a 2 percent increase in anxiety and pain, as well as a one percent increase in stress and sadness, during the year of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. On the bright side, anger decreased by one point.
Gallup also asks about positive Experiences are sliding downhill for the first time since 2017. Positive experiences include laughing, having fun, learning, respecting, and being comfortable. Laughter increased by two and learning increased by one, but the others all fell back.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the abandoned people of Afghanistan feel particularly miserable under the rule of their new masters, the brutal Taliban extremists. Not only are they sick, starving and fearful for their lives, Afghans are “losing out whatever happiness they have” and were already the “least positive country in the world”, even though the Central African Republic scored the all-time lowest happiness score in 2017. .
The survey found that “the percentage of Afghans who said they had fun, smiled or laughed, learned something interesting, or felt well rested the previous day all dropped to new highs.”
A Taliban special forces element pushes a journalist (left) covering a demonstration of female demonstrators outside a school in Kabul on September 30, 2021 (Bulent Kilic / AFP via Getty Images)
Anxiety, stress, and sadness rose to record levels in Afghanistan in 2021: 80% of Afghans were anxious, 74% were tense, and 61% felt sad most of the previous day. It is worth noting that for 16 years no one else at Gallup has said they feel so anxious,” the survey organizers reported.
Gallup noted that “it is more important for policy makers to understand why the world is in this cycle and to find ways in which they can change the course it is on,” although its analysts have struggled to explain the global slide into misery, especially when they were anticipating a post-year rebound. miserable epidemic.
Some of the individual national results were easy to understand. For example, Lebanon topped the charts as the most angry country in the world, which is not surprising given its comprehensively dysfunctional government, the bitter partisan feuds that made it so, and its miserable corruption and incompetence blowing Half Beirut to smithereens in 2020 – an atrocity that no one committed Accounting after two years.
John Clifton was the CEO of Gallup Three broad suggestions To improve global happiness: improve people’s sense of well-being at work, reduce loneliness, and tackle global hunger. Unfortunately, there is every reason to believe that global hunger will do so getting worseThanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
