Serious insight into Hungarians: we are increasingly unhappy

Hungarians have never been known for their happiness, but now, the statistics are even worse than before.

The World Happiness Report

Gallub has been publishing The World Happiness Report, an annual survey since 2005. It uses statistical analysis to rank the happiest countries on earth, writes Pénzcentrum.hu. A report published earlier this year for 2021 showed that – unsurprisingly – Finland was the happiest country in the world. Where is Hungary on this list? Not in a good position, that is for sure.

In the search for the happiest country in the world, researchers have compiled the results of a Gallup poll of 149 countries and summarised the happiness of people in each country according to different factors in 10 main categories.

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How happy is Hungary?

The top three happiest countries are Finland, Denmark and Iceland. According to the survey, the unhappiest country is Afghanistan. Unfortunately, things are not going well in Hungary either. In 2020, Hungary was ranked 43rd on the list of the happiest countries in the world. Last year’s results put us in 51st place, down 8 places.

The survey asked people in each country to rate their satisfaction with their lives on a scale of zero to ten. On the scale, zero means the worst quality of life and ten means the best. While Finns gave an average score of 7.8, this number is Hungary is 6.8. The people of Afghanistan, the country with the lowest happiness, gave an average score of 2.4, which is quite devastating.

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From which aspects can the emotional climate of the world be examined?

Last year, Gallup conducted a comprehensive poll of the world’s countries on 10 key questions, entitled “How is the world’s emotional climate now?”. The results of the poll showed that Hungary did not do particularly well.

Aspects:

anger: 12 percent of Hungarians were angry the day before the survey;
sadness: 17 percent were sad;
stress: 31 percent were stressed;
worry: 28 percent were worried;
pain: 31 percent felt physical pain;
pleasure: 79 percent had enjoyed something;
fatigue: 50 percent were tired;
learning: 49 percent said they had learned something new;
smile: 72 percent smiled;
appreciation: 6 percent felt a total lack of appreciation the day before the survey.