Brace yourself for this newsflash. According to a recent study, the world’s population is feeling a bit ... ill at ease.

Gallup, a global data analytics company, and the World Health Summit, an annual gathering of leaders and changemakers, recently collaborated on a report titled “State of the World’s Emotional Health.”

Based on interviews with 145,000 people in 144 countries, the report found that nearly 4 out of 10 adults around the world felt “a lot of worry” the day before they were interviewed.

A similar number, 37%, said they felt stressed. About 26% felt sad, 22% felt angry and 32% were in physical pain.

Once converted to scale, these numbers had risen by hundreds of millions compared to similar polls from a decade ago. Billions of people on Earth are “living with distress.

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