Americans under the age of 30 are so miserable that now they just have fallen on a historic low ranking in an annual report on world luck

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The United States has a problem with happiness.

IN The world’s happiness reports The annual ranking of the happiest countries, now they have fallen to no. 24, which is the lowest position in the 13-year history history. Last year, Now they dropped out of the top 20 for the first time. The list is assembled from analysis that a representative pattern of residents from over 140 countries evaluate their quality of life.

“This gradual decline in well-being in the United States is, if you start digging in it, especially guided by people under 30,” Jan-Emmanuel de Neve, a professor of economics at the University of Oxford, leader Wealth. “The life satisfaction of young people in the US has rejected.”

If you just evaluated those under 30, now they wouldn’t even be ranked in the top 60 happiest countries, the report said. This is the same reason for the dramatic fall of the US last year from 15th to no. 23. But the continuous decline is worrying, the researchers noted.

“It is really disgusting to see this, and it is perfectly associated with the fact that young people are in America from a cliff, which greatly triggers a fall on the ladder,” De Neve says.

The ranking of the US is also explained by greater inequality compared to Nordic countries, such as Finland (No. 1), Denmark (No. 2) and Iceland (No. 3).

“In these Nordic Scandinavian countries, the rise tide raises all the ships, so that the levels of economic inequality are much less, and this is also reflected in well -being,” De Neve says. “In Finland, most people will evaluate [their happiness] Like seven or eight, while looking at the distribution of well -being in the United States, there are many 10 outside, but there are many. “

The report this year focused more on the power of social support in the country and how many people believe in other-key predictor of personal well-being. In 2023. Almost one of five young adults in the United States said there was no one to count on support. And in the US, the number of places for dining was increased by 53% of 2003 (the number of common meals during the week was a new data point in this year’s report, which is in line with positive well-being, according to de Neveu).

“You see an extraordinary increase in the dining room in the last two decades in the US,” he says, which exacerbates the distrust of people in others and in society. “The fact is that people are increasingly alone, isolated, their political thinking, their theories about life and society, others do not test others … In our departments of the chambers, we develop these ideas that others should be distrustful, and we distrust and migrants eat cats and dogs, all that I do, and that, and that, and that, and that, It is, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, and it is, and that, and that, and that, and that, and that, that, that, and that, and, and that is.

Researchers say they were able to pick up distrust by asking people if people believed that someone would return the lost wallet. Compared to Nordic countries, people in the US are more likely to underestimate the kindness of others.

“It requires that foreigners should be believed, that they will transcend the call of duty and be kind and try to return it to the legal owner, or reject it with the police, which means you need to trust the police,” De Neve says. “This single item of a drop of wallet is very powerful.”

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