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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth and Michael Goodier

People in UK are overall less happy than before pandemic, ONS finds

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The annual personal wellbeing figures showed a statistically significant fall in all measures in England. Photograph: kaipong/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Living in the UK in 2023 is no recipe for happiness, new official measures of the national mood confirm, but a solution may be at hand: move to a remote island in the north Atlantic.

After improvements in overall wellbeing in Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the worst of the pandemic had passed, during the last year measures of life satisfaction and happiness have fallen and anxiety increased, meaning that overall, the people of the UK are still less content than before Covid hit.

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