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Summary.
Surveys on happiness continue to show that joy and fulfillment levels in the U.S. have flattened or declined over time — even as material prosperity grows — with a sharp drop as Covid shook the world in 2020. Globally, there are wide distributions in happiness and a broad number of factors in play, but what’s clear is that well-being is driven only partially by material security.