“The world has spent much of the past two decades in an increasingly bad mood. Levels of anger, sadness and stress crept up year after year according to polls; the pandemic pushed them higher still. Yet the latest global survey on emotional health by Gallup, a pollster, shows something unexpected: people are cheering up. Negative emotions have fallen back to roughly their pre-pandemic levels, well below where they would be if the earlier trend had continued. The Economist’s analysis of the data, however, shows that the recovery is far from even.”

From The Economist.