Key points

Positive emotions are holding steady in 2024.

In 2024, feeling treated with respect (88 percent) is one of the highest levels the Gallup survey measured.

Daily experiences of laughter, enjoyment, and feeling well-rested hold at long-term averages.

Younger people may still feel angry, but now they’re expressing more enjoyment of life than their elders.

2025 marks the release of the first joint Gallup and World Health Summit report, “State of the World’s Emotional Health.” Gallup has conducted 145,000 interviews over two decades across 144 countries, using a scale developed by former Princeton Psychology Department Chair Hadley Cantril, in which subjects evaluate their level of well-being by rating feelings of laughter , enjoyment, respect from others, anger , worry, and

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