WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The percentage of U.S. adults who evaluate their lives well enough to be considered "thriving" has dropped to 46.4%, matching the low point measured in November 2008 during the Great Recession.
Today's thriving rate has worsened about three percentage points since the first half of March and nearly 10 points since the spring of 2019.Gallup classifies Americans as "thriving," "struggling" or "suffering" according to how they rate their current and future lives on a ladder scale with steps numbered from 0 to 10, based on the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale.
Those who rate their current life a seven or higher and their anticipated life in five years an eight or higher are classified as thriving.The most recent