9 in 10 Individuals are happy with the way in which issues are going of their private life, a brand new excessive in Gallup’s four-decade development. The most recent determine bests the earlier excessive of 88% recorded in 2003. Gallup reviews:

These outcomes are from Gallup’s Temper of the Nation ballot, carried out Jan. 2-15, which additionally recorded a 20-year excessive in Individuals’ confidence within the U.S. financial system. The share of Individuals who report being happy with their private life is just like the 86% who mentioned in December that they had been very or pretty comfortable — although the happiness determine, whereas excessive, is on the low finish of what Gallup has measured traditionally for that query.

Regardless of some variation, strong majorities of Individuals have reported being happy with their private life over the previous few many years, with a median of 83% happy since 1979. The historic low of 73% was recorded in July 1979, as the consequences of that yr’s oil disaster took a toll on U.S. motorists. Throughout that ballot’s fielding dates, then-President Jimmy Carter delivered his “malaise speech,” which was interpreted by some as putting blame on Individuals themselves for the tough financial spot the nation was in.

A 2019 survey on 10 points of Individuals’ lives discovered that they’re most happy with their household life, their training and the way in which they spend their leisure time — and least happy with the quantity of leisure time they’ve, their family revenue and their job.