Gallup Poll: Americans continue to rate their lives as well as at any time since measurement began in January 2008, according to the November update of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The Life Evaluation Index, which reached the 50.0 threshold for the first time in October, finished November at 49.5, up more than 16 points since its low point of 33.1 last November.
In November, 52.9% of American adults were classified as “thriving,” just shy of the recorded high from last month and substantially improved over the 37.4% measured in November of last year. The percentage of “suffering” American adults was also near its lowest point of 3.2%, measuring slightly higher at 3.4%. (The overall Life Evaluation Index score of 49.5 is calculated as the percentage of Americans that are “thriving” minus the percentage that are “struggling.”)
