Ireland ranks 10th in world wellbeing survey

A SURVEY of “global wellbeing” has found that despite our financial woes, Ireland has the 10th highest percentage of people who are “thriving” based on how they rate their lives and where they see themselves in five years.

The Gallup survey for 2010 classifies respondents’ wellbeing as “thriving” “struggling” or “suffering”. Results were based on face-to-face and telephone interviews with about 1,000 people aged 15 and older in each of the 124 countries surveyed.

People are considered thriving if they rate their current lives at seven out of 10 or above and their lives in five years as eight out of 10 or above.