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For decades, happiness research showed a U-shape across a lifetime — high in youth, bottoming out at around 50, then rising again after 70. A new study across 44 countries finds that curve has flipped: young adults are now the least happy group, and despair declines steadily with age
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The old happiness curve was easy to remember.
It makes the actual result clearer: younger adults in these datasets are not merely missing an advantage once associated with youth.
The mirror image also appeared: worry, stress and other forms of ill-being tended to rise towards middle age and fall afterwards.
Why this is not quite a global happiness inversionThe title-sized version is that young people are now the least happy everywhere.
The new paper’s force lies in finding a similar age gradient across several measures of ill-being, not in proving that every country now shares one happiness curve.