Gallup Report: Share of Americans Thriving Falls to 48.1%, With Young Adults Down the Most
A report released October 5 by Gallup and The Rippel Foundation, Thriving Together in America, found that the share of Americans rating their current and future lives highly enough to be classified as "thriving" fell to 48.1% in the third quarter of 2026, down more than 10 percentage points from its 2021 peak.
Another measure in the report, hope, stood at 59.4%, close to the low of 59.2% recorded in 2025 in tracking that began in 2008. By age, 44% of adults ages 18 to 29 were thriving, compared with 64% in 2010, the steepest decline of any age group.
The report draws on more than 3 million interviews Gallup has conducted over two decades, measuring Americans' overall well-being across health, life satisfaction and community belonging.
(Source: Gallup and The Rippel Foundation report released October 5, 2026, and its BusinessWire announcement)
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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