Gallup Global Wellbeing - March 2010

The tables show life evaluation estimates of the percentage “thriving,” “struggling,” and “suffering” in countries and regions across the world. Gallup’s Thriving, Struggling, and Suffering indexes measure respondents’ perceptions of where they stand now and in the future. Based on the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale, Gallup measures life satisfaction by asking respondents to rate their present and future lives on a “ladder” scale with steps numbered from 0 to 10, where “0” indicates the worst possible life and “10” the best possible life. Individuals who rate their current lives a “7” or higher and their future an “8” or higher are considered thriving. Individuals are suffering if they report their current and future lives as a “4” or lower. All other individuals are considered struggling.

Presented records are sorted by percentage thriving.

In attempt to place wellbeing of population in Palestinian Territories in global context, countries that are worse off will be listed by region along with the total number of countries in that region.

Asia (first shown ranked 30 out of 46 countries total)

	Thriving %	Struggling %	Suffering %	Daily Experience
Palestinian Territories	14	70	15	5.8
Turkey	13	67	20	6.0
Kyrgyzstan	13	81	7	7.3
Azerbaijan	13	70	17	6.6
Armenia	11	55	33	5.9
Iraq	11	71	18	5.2
Sri Lanka	10	66	24	6.9
India	10	69	21	6.9
Syria	10	66	24	6.8
Georgia	10	56	35	6.2
Afghanistan	10	69	21	6.2
China	9	77	14	7.6
Nepal	7	82	11	7.4
Mongolia	7	81	12	7.0
Laos	7	89	4	7.1
Tajikistan	7	74	19	6.5
Cambodia	3	75	22	7.6

Africa (first shown ranked 8 out of 46 countries total)

	Thriving %	Struggling %	Suffering %	Daily Experience
Cameroon	14	77	9	7.0
Tunisia	14	77	9	6.8
Zambia	14	78	8	7.6
Central African Republic	12	75	13	6.4
Ethiopia	12	67	21	6.4
Namibia	11	79	10	8.1
Angola	11	81	8	6.8
Mozambique	10	78	11	7.2
Egypt	10	71	19	6.1
Mauritania	10	83	7	7.2
Zimbabwe	10	73	17	7.3
Morocco	10	80	10	7.0
Kenya	9	78	13	7.5
Ghana	9	83	8	7.5
Congo (Brazzaville)	8	73	20	6.9
Guinea	8	89	3	7.1
Sudan	7	81	12	7.4
Djibouti	7	86	8	7.5
Madagascar	7	84	10	7.0
Uganda	6	71	23	6.8
Tanzania	6	70	24	7.5
Senegal	6	88	6	7.3
Chad	5	88	7	7.1
Liberia	5	90	5	6.7
Mali	5	77	18	8.0
Ivory Coast	4	84	12	7.2
Congo (Kinshasa)	4	85	11	6.4
Benin	4	80	16	6.7
Niger	3	86	11	7.9
Rwanda	3	75	22	7.8
Burkina Faso	3	71	26	6.5
Sierra Leone	3	74	23	6.3
Comoros	2	75	23	7.7
Burundi	2	58	40	7.5
Togo	1	67	31	5.0

Americas (first shown ranked 27 out of 27 countries total)

	Thriving %	Struggling %	Suffering %	Daily Experience
Haiti	4	60	35	6.2

Europe (first shown ranked 36 out of 40 countries total)

	Thriving %	Struggling %	Suffering %	Daily Experience
Macedonia	14	54	32	6.8
Hungary	13	53	34	6.9
Albania	13	67	19	5.6
Latvia	11	64	25	6.5
Bulgaria	6	58	36	6.5

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