A recent report revealed that young people have become less happy than older generations, because they are suffering from “the equivalent of a midlife crisis,” the Guardian said.
The World Happiness Report for 2024 showed that the decline in well-being among people under the age of 30 led to the United States falling out of the list of the twenty happiest people in the world.
The report also noted that young people across North America “are now less happy than older people,” with the same “historic” shift expected to occur in Western Europe.
The director of the WellBeing Research Centre and the editor of the study, Professor Jean-Emmanuel De Neve, said that the report showed “disconcerting drops in the youth happiness, especially in North America and Western Europe.”
Britons under the age of 30 ranked 32nd in the rankings, behind countries such as Moldova, Kosovo and El Salvador, which have one of the highest murder rates in the world. By contrast, Britons over 60 made it into the “top 20” list of the happiest older generations in the world.
The World Happiness Report is an annual measure of wellbeing in 140 countries, issued by the Center for Wellbeing Research at the University of Oxford, the Gallup Foundation, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
