Life Satisfaction and Age
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Life Satisfaction and Age
Although many of us think longingly about our young-adult years (mid-20s in particular) throughout our post-20s lives, there’s some evidence that life satisfaction actually gets better and better—with some wobbling—up through our 70s, the peak arising somewhere in the early portion of that decade, before it tips downward a little (generally for health-related reasons).
Caveats are warranted as this is based on self-reported survey data (which makes sense for this type of information, but still—lots of room for bias of various kinds), and this will of course vary from person to person (the reported data here is “average life satisfaction, scored from 0 to 10”).
That said, there’s a nice, simple graph of this data available via this link that shows why our 20s actually end up being a “pit of uncertainty and the unknown” for many, while the “golden years” are perceived as pretty wonderful by the average person: https://flowingdata.com/2022/11/10/life-satisfaction-and-age/
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