Americans up to 30

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March 20, 2025

The US has a problem of happiness.

In Report on World Happiness The annual rating of the happiest countries in the United States decreased to No. 24, its least position in the 13-year list. Last year, US came out with the top -20 For the first time. The list consists of an analysis of how a representative sample of residents from more than 140 countries evaluate its quality of life.

“This gradual decline in welfare in the US is that if you start digging it, especially stipulated by people below 30,” says Jan-Emmanuel de Nnees, Economics Professor at Oxford University, Well-Vys. Wealth. “The satisfaction of young people in the US has fallen.”

If you only evaluated those below 30, the US could not even do in the top -60 happiest countries, the report notes. This is the same reason for a sharp drop in the United States last year from No. 15 to No. 23. But the constant decrease concerns researchers, the researchers said.

“It really is unpleasant to see this, and it is perfectly associated with the fact that it is the well-being of the youth in America, which greatly determines the cliff, which greatly causes the fall in the rating,” says de soon.

The US rating is also explained by greater inequality than the northern countries such as Finland (No. 1), Denmark (No. 2) and Iceland (No. 3).

“In these northern Scandinavian countries, the rise rise in all the boats, so the level of economic inequality is much lower, and it also reflects well-being,” says de So. “In Finland, most people will evaluate (their happiness) as seven or eight, whereas if you look at the distribution of well-being in the States, there are many 10 years, but there are many.”

This year, more than the strength of the country’s social support was focused and how many people are trusted by other personal well-being. In 2023, almost every fifth young adult said he could not count on support. And in the US, the number of people standing only since 2003 has increased by 53% (the number of total dishes during the week has become a new data item in this year’s report, which correlates with positive well -being, de soon).

“You see an unusual increase in the dining room in the last two decades in the US,” he says that he worsens the distrust of people in others and in the community. “The fact is that people are increasingly independently, isolated, their political thinking, their theories around life and society, are no longer checked by others … In our echoes, we develop these concepts that others should be distrustful, and we trust others, and migrants eat cats and dogs, and all things. Yes. “

Researchers say they were able to pick up the distrust, asking whether the people who would return the lost wallet believed. Compared to the northern countries, the US people are more likely to underestimate the kindness of others.

“It is necessary to trust strangers to go beyond the obligation and will be kind and try to return it to the legal owner, or discard him to the police, which means that you need to trust the police,” De soon says. “This single downship element is very powerful.”