People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About The Future: We Know Because They Said So

People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About The Future: We Know Because They Said So

People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About The Future: We Know Because They Said So Pete Alexopoulos, via Unsplash With civil wars in Myanmar and Sudan, climate change manifestations the world over, instability across the Middle East, and geopolitical tensions abounding in East Asia, Europe, and North America, one would imagine the global population to have a pessimistic outlook on things. But the annual Gallup Life Evaluation Index found that “men and women, young and old,” consider themselves to be thriving in larger numbers than any other time in the past. Asked to rank their lives on a scale of 0 to 10, with 4 and below classified as suffering, 5 to 6 as struggling, and 7-10 as thriving, a third of the surveyed population spread across 142 nations described themselves as currently thriving. Additionally, the outlook on the next 5 years is as high as it’s ever been, with an average score of 7.9. Unlike metrics of GPD, which predominantly measure economic output and, as a…