The Spanish - happiest nation in Europe according to latest Gallup poll
Wednesday, December 30, 2020 @ 8:54 PM
According to the latest Gallup International poll, the Spanish are the happiest nation in the European Union.
Although the overall happiness of Spaniards has gone down by 7% compared with 2019, they are still the second most optimistic nation - after Finland - in Europe, which is statistically the most pessimistic continent in the world.
The Worldwide Hope "End of Year" survey, in which Spain participated via Madrid-based market research company Sigma Dos, interviewed some 38,709 people, around a thousand men and a thousand women in each country, between October and December 2020.
According to the survey, Spanish people are slightly more optimistic than the worldwide average (43%). The survey found that 46% of Spaniards believe that 2021 will be better than 2020, compared to the 29% who believe it will be worse and the 23% who believe it will be the same.
Across Europe as a whole, only 35% of people admit to being optimistic about next year, with Italians, somewhat surprisingly, the most pessimistic of all - only 13% of them think 2021 will be better than 2020, followed by the Poles (15%) and the Bulgarians (16%); at the other end of the scale and showing much greater optimism about next year are the Finns (57%).
When it comes to happiness in general, 65% of Spaniards describe themselves as either happy or very happy, compared to the 7% who feel unhappy and the 26% who said they felt neither happy nor unhappy. In 2019, 72% of Spaniards said they were happy.
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