Britain is ranked first among the poorest countries for “human prosperity”, according to a major study that raises questions about the welfare of the nation and youth in particular.
The survey, which spanned 22 countries in six continents, classified the twentieth UK based on a combined degree that is a set of factors of happiness, health and financial security to relations and meaning in life.
the Study global prosperity It tied on representative samples at the national level to reflect the experiences of nearly half of the world’s population. The five -year project was launched in 2022 with the aim of interrogating more than 200,000 participants annually and building a detailed image of what helps and hinders human prosperity.
in Wave The researchers were released on Wednesday, and the researchers showed the main results of the poll, which asked dozens of questions about prosperity, and a lot about the lives of people and the present. The latter included questions about childhood and family relations, education, religious practice, and marital status.
Armed with data, the researchers have identified initial predictions of the prosperity of man and produced a degree aimed at giving a general sense of the extent of individual states, on one scale from one to 10.
“One of the big surprises of data … is the arrangement of the two countries,” said Professor Tyler Vandanderi, Harvard Epidemist at Harvard University. Analysis in The nature of mental health Indonesia is classified first, followed by Israel, the Philippines and Mexico. The United Kingdom, Turkey and Japan take the three lower sites.
The results are sharply contradicted with Global Happiness ReportWhich was ranked regularly by the northern European countries and occupies the United Kingdom in the first quarter of 100 countries included in the survey.
According to Vandaveri, the disparity may be driven by more richer and more advanced countries in financial security and measures such as “life evaluation”, but worse than relationships and a sense of life. The survey, for example, found that the degrees to find meaning in life tend to be less in countries with a higher gross domestic product.
Part of the survey focused on religion and found that the presence of religious services in childhood predicted an increase in prosperity as an adult, although the study cannot prove a causal link. The survey was funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which has long been interested in the intersection of science and religion.
The researchers said that one of the most worrying results is that young people in countries like the United Kingdom, and it appears that the United States and Australia are at least to flourish. Again, these previous work meters that appear U -shaped relationship Between luxury and age, with young and old better than those in middle age.
In the United Kingdom, children between the ages of 18 and 24 have scored “significantly less” on the consent of life from 25 to 29 years, who in turn recorded less than the eighties of the last century, said Dr. Tim Lumas, a psychologist in the study. “It seems that the youngest in the UK is particularly struggling,” he said.
With more data, researchers hope to know how prosperity is different with global events. But Vandanderi said that people can use a 12 -questions prosperity to evaluate their life. He said, “I try to do it at least every three months.” “Over time, you can see what is improving, what remains as it is, and what may get worse.”
Professor Kate Picket, an epidemic scientist at York University, was cautious about some results. One of the reasons was that the self -reported measures of luxury did not always reflect objective measures for the health of the nation. She said that Japan, which ranked the minimum among the 22 countries, has the age of average life expectancy and infants lower than any of others.
Picky is also suspected of the effect of the epidemic. She said, “I am very surprised that there is no single male for the Covid epidemic.” “We know that in the previous two years of survey, young people had suffered from all the negative effects of this – lock, anxiety, disturbances on education, training, social relations, etc. – perhaps at a more important turn than older adults, with a permanent impact on all aspects of their prosperity.”
She added: “We already know from a very large group of evidence that we need to give children a good start in life, give people safe life, focus on prevention, and reduce economic inequality.”
