Despite the trials, Filipinos emerged as the happiest nation in the world, based on the 2022 End of Year Survey by the Gallup International Association (GIA).
Of the 34 countries included in the survey, the Philippines earned a net score of 75%. The top 5 include Mexico, Malaysia, Afghanistan, and Ecuador.
Meanwhile, 39% of Filipinos are full of hope that 2023 will be better than 2022. There are 52% who believe that there will be no change, and five percent said that it will be worse next year.
Nigeria and Pakistan are the top 2 most hopeful nations in the world, followed by Kazakhstan (#3), Philippines (#4) and India (#5).
The survey shows that the majority of the world has doubts about whether things will be better in 2023 due to the global average of optimism of -2%.
European countries are the “least optimistic” in 2023. Poland, the Czech Republic, Serbia, France, and Italy, are the countries with the lowest optimism numbers.
Meanwhile, almost half of Filipinos (49%) are not satisfied with the state of the country’s economy. 34% expect a more prosperous Philippine economy in 2023.
There is said to be a sample size of 1,000 participants in the survey nationwide, covering all socio-economic classes (ABCDE households), who are 18 years old and above.
Gallup names Philippines happiest country in the world
The survey was conducted in the Philippines by the Philippine Survey and Research Center (PSRC), the local representative of GIA.
Meanwhile, the national Social Weather Survey December 10-14, 2022, found 95% of adult Filipinos entering the New Year with hope rather than fear.
This is 2 points above the 93% recorded in 2021 and similar to the pre-Covid-19 96% in 2019.
On the other hand, 5% will enter the New Year with fear, down by 2 points from 7% in 2020 and 2021.
The percentage of those who are entering the New Year with hope rather than fear is higher among those who expected a happy Christmas (97%) than those who expected neither a happy nor sad Christmas (91%) and those who expected a sad Christmas (87%).
Hope for the coming New Year has always been higher among those who expected a happy Christmas than those who expected a sad Christmas.
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