"In 2025, only about 59% of Americans gave high ratings when asked to evaluate how good their life will be in about five years, the lowest annual measure since Gallup began asking this question almost 20 years ago. It's a warning about the depth of the gloom that has fallen over the country over the past few years. In the data, Gallup's "current" and "future""
"The finding comes from a longstanding Gallup question that asks Americans to rate their current and future lives on a scale from 0 to 10. Those who give themselves an 8 or higher on the question about the future are categorized as optimists. "While current life is eroding, it's that optimism for the future that has eroded almost twice as much over the course of about that last 10 years or so," said Dan Witters,"
"Gallup assesses people who rate their current life at a 7 or higher and their anticipated future at an 8 or higher as "thriving." Fewer than half of Americans, about 48%, are now in that category. Democrats and Hispanic Americans, in particular, were in a darker mood last year. But even with President Donald Trump back in the White House and his party in control of both houses of Congress,"
In 2025 only about 59% of Americans rated how good their life will be in about five years at 8 or higher, the lowest annual level since Gallup began asking. Current life satisfaction has declined over the last decade, but optimism about the future has fallen even more, roughly twice as much. Gallup counts future optimists as those giving an 8 or higher and defines "thriving" as current life of 7+ and future of 8+; fewer than half of Americans (about 48%) meet that standard. Democrats and Hispanic Americans showed particularly low future ratings, and Republicans' future outlook is weaker than at the end of Trump's first term despite GOP control of government.
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