The rate of shootings is also alarmingly high, with the U.S. ranking 90 percent worse than all countries analyzed, ranking just below Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Guyana, and far below China and Russia.
The U.S. also comes in last among the world’s high-income countries in terms of fatal overdose rate — and it’s getting worse each year, the report says.
While the country is improving on a national scale, its rank has worsened on an international scale, outperforming just 30 percent of countries, ranking just ahead of Russia and just behind Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania.
To examine Americans’ life satisfaction, the authors looked into two measures: satisfaction with our current lives and social isolation.
In terms of satisfaction with our current lives, the U.S. outperforms 70 percent of countries, ranking just below Slovenia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.
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