{"id":55955,"date":"2013-12-03T17:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=55955"},"modified":"2013-12-03T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T13:42:17","slug":"suffering-in-bulgaria-and-armenia-highest-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=55955","title":{"rendered":"“Suffering” in Bulgaria and Armenia Highest Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

— For the third year in a row, Bulgaria in 2012 once again had the negative distinction of leading the global suffering<\/a> list, with 39% of Bulgarians rating their lives poorly enough to be considered “suffering.” However, this time, Bulgaria is not alone at the top. Thirty-seven percent of Armenians were suffering, and Cambodians, Haitians, Hungarians, Malagasy, Macedonians, and Iranians followed closely behind.<\/p>\n

Gallup classifies respondents as “thriving,” “struggling,” or “suffering” according to how they rate their current and future lives on a ladder scale with steps numbered from zero to 10 based on the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale<\/a>. Gallup considers people to be suffering if they rate their current lives a 4 or lower and their lives in five years a 4 or lower. The respondents do not label themselves as suffering.<\/p>\n

In 20 out of 143 countries and areas surveyed in 2012, at least a quarter of the adult population rated their lives poorly enough to be considered suffering.<\/p>\n

Suffering was 2% or less in 17 countries and areas — most of them wealthier and more developed countries. Some developing countries also made this list: Thailand, Venezuela, Nigeria, the Somaliland region, and Libya.<\/p>\n

Results are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults, aged 15 and older, per country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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