Heavy social media engagement is contributing to a stark decline in the well-being of young people, with teenage girls in English-speaking countries and Western Europe experiencing particularly worrying effects, according to a new global report.
The World Happiness Report 2026, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, highlights a significant drop in life evaluations among under-25s across the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand over the past decade.
