Research: Personal well-being in the UK: January to December 2017

This statistical bulletin investigates the state of personal well-being in the UK and provides country by country analysis.

Key findings

• During 2017 average ratings of happiness and feeling that the things done in life are worthwhile have slightly increased in the UK.
• There has been no overall change in average ratings of life satisfaction and anxiety.
• Scotland has shown improvements in average ratings of life satisfaction, worthwhile and happiness but there have been no overall changes in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.
• A larger proportion of people in Wales reported low levels of life satisfaction, worthwhile and happiness compared with the UK average.

The statistics in this bulletin are displayed through the Office for National Statistic’s well-being dashboard, which reports how the UK is doing for the different areas of life that matter most to the UK public.