At least will be happier.
According to a poll published by Gallup on 18 Jul 2013 [Link], Singaporeans are one of the top 10 most pessimistic in the world about the direction of their lives last year. Nearly 1 in 4 Singaporeans expect their lives in 5 years to be worse than their present lives.
Gallup conducted telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults per country, aged 15 and older, in 141 countries and areas last year.
Top 10 Most Pessimistic Countries in 2012
Percentages of the population rating their future lives worse than their current lives (based on respondents’ ratings of their lives in 5 years vs. their current lives using a 0-to-10 scale).
The world’s most pessimistic country is Greece. Last week, Greece and its creditors agreed on the terms of continued bailout payments. Greece will continue to implement austerity measures demanded by the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF, which will mean further public-sector cuts.
With its economy in shambles after years of austerity measures and depression, an unemployment rate of 27% — and double that among young people — and frequent protests against the government’s austerity plans, Greeks do not have much hope that their situation could improve in the near future.
On the other hand, it’s strange that Singapore with an unemployment rate of about 2%, falls into the top 10 rankings of being one of the most pessimistic countries.
Gallup asks respondents to 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. Gallup labels those who rate their future lives higher than their current lives as optimistic and those who rate their future lives lower than their current lives as pessimistic. Those who rate their future lives the same as their current lives fall into neither of those groups.
Some of the most optimistic countries are those with the lowest current life ratings — reflecting the belief that their current situations are poor and can only get better. Optimism may be more widespread in these countries simply because people cannot imagine that their lives could get any worse. Nearly everyone in Burkina Faso, Comoros, Niger, Benin, Guinea, and the Somaliland region, and nine in 10 or more in Chad, Rwanda, and Senegal rate their future lives higher than their present situations.
According to a poll published by Gallup on 18 Jul 2013 [Link], Singaporeans are one of the top 10 most pessimistic in the world about the direction of their lives last year. Nearly 1 in 4 Singaporeans expect their lives in 5 years to be worse than their present lives.
Gallup conducted telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults per country, aged 15 and older, in 141 countries and areas last year.
Top 10 Most Pessimistic Countries in 2012
Percentages of the population rating their future lives worse than their current lives (based on respondents’ ratings of their lives in 5 years vs. their current lives using a 0-to-10 scale).
The world’s most pessimistic country is Greece. Last week, Greece and its creditors agreed on the terms of continued bailout payments. Greece will continue to implement austerity measures demanded by the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF, which will mean further public-sector cuts.
With its economy in shambles after years of austerity measures and depression, an unemployment rate of 27% — and double that among young people — and frequent protests against the government’s austerity plans, Greeks do not have much hope that their situation could improve in the near future.
On the other hand, it’s strange that Singapore with an unemployment rate of about 2%, falls into the top 10 rankings of being one of the most pessimistic countries.
Gallup asks respondents to 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. Gallup labels those who rate their future lives higher than their current lives as optimistic and those who rate their future lives lower than their current lives as pessimistic. Those who rate their future lives the same as their current lives fall into neither of those groups.
Some of the most optimistic countries are those with the lowest current life ratings — reflecting the belief that their current situations are poor and can only get better. Optimism may be more widespread in these countries simply because people cannot imagine that their lives could get any worse. Nearly everyone in Burkina Faso, Comoros, Niger, Benin, Guinea, and the Somaliland region, and nine in 10 or more in Chad, Rwanda, and Senegal rate their future lives higher than their present situations.
