The Week in Charts

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The Week in Charts

Welcome to The Week in Charts, where we break down Gallup's latest insights on our constantly evolving world. Here are the five insights you shouldn't miss this week:

1. Suffering Rises in America

Line Chart: 5.6% of American adults evaluate their life poorly enough to be considered 'suffering' in 2022.

The 5.6% of Americans who evaluate their lives poorly enough to be considered "suffering" on Gallup's Life Evaluation Index is the highest we've measured since the index's inception in 2008. That means 14 million U.S. adults rate their lives on the bottom side of the scale. The rise in suffering is bipartisan. Both Democrats and Republicans, but not independents, saw their suffering rates rise from April to July.
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2. Is a Partisan Paradigm Shift Coming to U.S. Politics?

Line Chart: 52% of American millennials identify as politically independent in 2022, compared to 44% of Generation X, 33% of baby boomers, and 26% of the Silent Generation.

While studying our latest party ID metrics, we came across this gem: Younger Americans are sticking with their independent political identification more so than their elders have. In these times of extreme partisanship that often color the nation's economic and political perspectives, a new paradigm may be on the horizon for partisan politics in America.
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3. Singapore Sees a Shift on LGBTQ Issues

Line Chart: 50% of Singaporeans say the city or area where they live is a good place for gay or lesbian people to live in 2022.

When the repeal of Singapore's ban on gay sex hit the news, our team examined one metric we've been tracking there for more than a decade. Over the past several years, our polls in Singapore have picked up a general increase in residents describing their area as a good place to live for gay or lesbian people.

4. Americans' Stress and Worry Rates on the Rise

Line Chart: 48% of American adults say they are experiencing stress in 2022, while 42% say they are experiencing worry.

As concerns about a possible recession reverberate in the national narrative, Americans' levels of stress and worry are on an upward trend compared with a year ago. While nowhere near the highs of the darkest days of the pandemic, nearly half of U.S. adults say they experienced a lot of stress the day before we interviewed them.
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5. Saudi Women's Average Life Evaluation Outpaces Men's

Line Chart: On a scale from zero to 10, Saudi women rate their perception of where they stand 'at this time' as 6.8 in 2022, compared to 6.2 for Saudi men.

As the countdown continues to the release of Gallup's new book, Blind Spot, here's a little nugget I came across while flipping through my advanced edition: Saudi women have, for nearly 10 years, rated their lives more positively than men have. Blind Spot, which looks at how the rise of global unhappiness caught leaders off guard, releases on Sept. 13.
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And that's The Week in Charts!

Mohamed Younis
Editor-in-Chief
Gallup

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