6.97
2025 (latest)
HAPPINESS
Cantril ladder score (0-10) · 2006–2025 · World Happiness Report (Gallup World Poll)
7.18
2006
7.51
high · 2007
6.52
low · 2023
−0.2 pts
since 2006
┊ dashed lines mark 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. World Happiness Report / Gallup World Poll, US single-year national average life evaluation by data year (not the 3-year ranking average). Series begins 2006; 2025 published in WHR 2026. 3-year means reproduce the published Figure 2.1 values exactly.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://data.worldhappiness.report/country/USA
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Long-Run-Indicators
Data
| Year | Happiness | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.97 | +0.0 pts |
| 2024 | 6.96 | +0.4 pts |
| 2023 | 6.52 | −0.2 pts |
| 2022 | 6.69 | −0.3 pts |
| 2021 | 6.96 | −0.1 pts |
| 2020 | 7.03 | +0.1 pts |
| 2019 | 6.94 | +0.1 pts |
| 2018 | 6.88 | −0.1 pts |
| 2017 | 6.99 | +0.2 pts |
| 2016 | 6.80 | −0.1 pts |
| 2015 | 6.86 | −0.3 pts |
| 2014 | 7.15 | −0.1 pts |
| 2013 | 7.25 | +0.2 pts |
| 2012 | 7.03 | −0.1 pts |
| 2011 | 7.12 | −0.0 pts |
| 2010 | 7.16 | +0.0 pts |
| 2009 | 7.16 | −0.1 pts |
| 2008 | 7.28 | −0.2 pts |
| 2007 | 7.51 | +0.3 pts |
| 2006 | 7.18 | — |
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