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Al Jazeera
Sarah Shamim

Why are UK teens the least happy in Europe?

The COVID-19 pandemic and the rampant use of social media might have contributed to children becoming unhappy with their appearance, the report suggests [Justin Lambert/Getty Images]

Children and young people in the United Kingdom are unhappier and have lower life satisfaction compared with others in their age group in the rest of Europe, a report published by a British charity says.

According to The Good Childhood Report 2024, published by The Children’s Society, 11 percent of children between the ages of 10 and 17 said they had low wellbeing, while one in six young people in the age group living in households affected by the cost of living crisis had low life satisfaction.

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