Gallup recently published its annual World Happiness Report, which ranks countries based on how happy their people are. For the first time in the report's twelve-year history, the ranking has taken respondents' ages into account — revealing a stark difference between how younger and older people feel about life in their home country.
To determine how satisfied or dissatisfied a country's residents are, Gallup's poll asked people to score their lives in general using the image of a ladder, where 10 represents the best possible life and zero represents the worst.
The top country for happy young people is Lithuania, where those aged under 30 reported an average happiness score of 7.759 out of 10. In the general ranking, where all ages are considered, the country ranks 19th.
Israel is second in the ranking, with an average score of 7.667. Visual Capitalist notes that survey responses in Israel were collected after the October 7 attack, but before much of the fighting Gaza has seen since.
The third-happiest country for under-30s is Serbia — young people living there gave their lives an average score of 7.658.
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Via Visual Capitalist.
