The shape of happiness.

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Happiness, those surveys show, follows a generalized U-shape over the course of a life: People report high degrees of happiness in their late teens and early 20s. But as the years roll by, people become more and more miserable, hitting a nadir in life satisfaction sometime around the early 50s. Happiness rebounds from there into old age and retirement.

Here's what it looks like when you plot the age-happiness curves from all seven of those surveys on the same chart:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/youll-probably-have-a-midlife-happiness-crisis-heres-why

Lots of comments on here about old people being miserable but actually it’s the late 40s 50s that are least happy (middle aged)

Older people look pretty happy or are they just in euphoria because they’re often a bit unaware of what’s going on?

Do these surveys reflect posters own experience?

It’s important to note the low points on the graph don’t mean that people are miserable, they’re often still happy, just less happy than they were and will be later in (hopefully)