An Analysis of TurkStat’s Life Satisfaction Survey Reveals Growing Contentment Among Turks, with Key Variances in Gender, Marital Status, and Age Groups
ANKARA – The happiness level for all individuals in Türkiye grew to 52.7% in 2023, a rise of 3 points from the previous year, according to TurkStat’s life satisfaction survey published Friday.
Those who said they were “unhappy” dropped 2.2 points to 13.7%.
Results showed that women are happier than men, with the percentage of happy women increasing to 55.1% from 52.7%, while men who said they are happy hiked to 50.3% from 46.5%.
Married couples were happier than singles, with 56.4% declaring to be happy in 2023 compared to 45.8% of singles.
“When the level of happiness among married individuals was examined by sex, it was seen that 53.2% of married males and 59.5% of married females were happy,” it said.
The happiest age group was 65 and older, whose happiness rate fell from 57.7% in 2022 to 56% in 2023.
On the other hand, the happiness rate for those18 – 24 hiked 6.1 points to 54.0%.
Being healthy was the top source of happiness among respondents, 69.5%, followed by love, success, money and work, respectively.
Most respondents declared the highest satisfaction for public security services with 74.6%, followed by 68.2% for transportation services and 65.4% for health services.
The survey found the cost of living, education and poverty were the most important problems in the country with 33.8%,16.5% and 13.4%, respectively.
It revealed that 67.1% of Turks were hopeful about their future.
The survey measures the overall happiness perception of the individuals and their social values, satisfaction with the main components of life and public services.
Source: AA Life
