AMERICANS’ LIFE SATISFACTION CLIMBS TO HIGHEST LEVEL IN 13 YEARS

Wed 07 July 2021:

The percentage of Americans who evaluate their lives well enough to be considered “thriving” on Gallup’s Live Evaluation Index reached 59.2% in June, the highest in over 13 years of ongoing measurement and exceeding the previous high of 57.3% from September 2017, the poll said.

In contrast, the thriving percentage plunged nearly 10 percentage points to 46.

4 percent by late April 2020 – a low point in the coronavirus pandemic – tying the record low last measured during the Great Recession, the release said.

Satisfaction With Current Life Steadily Climbs in 2021

The major drop in the thriving percentage in 2020 was characterized by a severe drop in current life satisfaction ratings. By late April, the percentage of U.S. adults who rated their current lives a “7” or higher had plunged about 11 percentage points, even as the anticipated life satisfaction five years forward had improved. As with the earlier decline in the thriving percentage, its subsequent rebound is driven primarily by changes in current life satisfaction.

Notably, even as current life satisfaction has increased in recent months, anticipated life satisfaction remains elevated compared with pre-COVID levels. The rapid recovery of current life satisfaction, coupled with the sustained elevated level of anticipated life satisfaction, has fueled the thriving percentage to its current heights.

The most recent results, captured June 14-20, 2021, are based on 4,820 U.S. adults surveyed by web as a part of the Gallup Panel, a probability-based, panel of about 120,000 adults across all 50 states and Washington, DC, the release added.

The marked improvement of key wellbeing metrics thus far in 2021 is due to a variety of factors, likely led by the widespread availability and rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines, according to the release.

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