Satisfaction with Life: Hungarians at the bottom of the scale

Hungarians are tailenders regarding their Satisfaction with Life (SWL) in Europe, and they are the least happy around their 50th age. You can also find the happiest and the unhappiest regions of Hungary in the article.

Even Romanians are more satisfied

According to the Eurostat, Hungarians are not too satisfied with their life. Among the 32 countries in which the European Union’s statistical office was doing a survey lately, Hungary is again at the bottom of the scale – hvg.hu reported.

As we reported before, people’s morale was 6.2 in 2013 on a scale ranging from 0 to 10 and it increased only to 6.41 by 2016. However, this number is still among the lowest in Europe.

From the 9 former socialist, but now EU-member republics

of Central- and Eastern-Europe, citizens are more satisfied with their life than the Hungarians in 7 countries. Not only the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania have higher numbers than Hungary but also Poland, Latvia and even Romania.

Still, there are considerable differences among the 32 countries being part of the survey. While in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland people marked their situation as comforting

a significant frustration can be detected in the Southern-European countries.

It can be stated that generally, and not surprisingly, younger generations are more satisfied with their life than older ones. Interestingly, this tendency breaks in Hungary at the age of 50 and in the case of the men. Young pensioners (65-74 years old) are more satisfied with their life than people between 55-64 years who even have lower SWL points than the generation above 74 years. This might be because they are already

tired or even suffering from burnout;

however, they still have to work long years until they can retire.