"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 stress."
"Emotional "vital signs" that impact health outcomes, such as worry, stress, sadness, and anger, are down from pandemic highs, except for physical pain. All remain higher than they were 10 years ago. Where peace is fragile, negative emotions intensify. In 163 countries, riots, strikes, and anti‑government demonstrations rose 244 percent from 2011 to 2019. Lack of peace above all shapes negative emotions. Sadness, worry, and anger are more common in less peaceful countries, along with experiencing physical pain."
Gallup collected 145,000 interviews over two decades across 144 countries using the Cantril well-being scale that measures laughter, enjoyment, respect, anger, worry, and stress. Positive emotions such as daily laughter, enjoyment, and feeling well‑rested hold at long-term averages, and 88 percent report feeling treated with respect in 2024. Negative emotions fell from pandemic peaks but remain above levels from ten years ago, with physical pain as an exception. Fragile peace correlates with intensified negative emotions: riots and protests surged in many countries, and less peaceful nations report higher sadness, worry, anger, and physical pain.
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