| Welcome to The Week in Charts, where we break down Gallup's latest insights on our constantly evolving world. Here are the five insights you shouldn't miss this week:
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| 1. Blind Spot Out TODAY!
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Gallup's newest book is out today! Blind Spot is our most in-depth look to date at how world leaders missed the rise of unhappiness, in its many flavors and shades, across the globe. The book examines some of our most important findings from the past 15 years, gleaned from asking the world's citizens about how their lives are going. Business leaders, politicos, economists, policy wonks and everyday citizens will all find something of value in this important new must-read.
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| 2. Shhhh … Half of America Is Quiet Quitting |
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For a country often accused of living to work and not working to live, half of the U.S. workforce might be deemed quiet quitters — but this is nothing new. Not walking away, but also not doing more than the bare minimum to keep their W-2 afloat, is tantamount to what Gallup has defined as "not engaged" workers in its long-standing employee engagement index. Before the pandemic, worker engagement had been improving. It has since stalled, dropping four percentage points since 2020, to 32% — while the percentage of actively disengaged workers has climbed four points, to 18%. The percentage of those just marking time has held steady near 50%.
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| 3. Are Hotter Days Cooling the World's Wellbeing?
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| After polling nearly 2 million adults worldwide on how their lives are going, our data gurus overlapped those metrics with geospatial weather information from NASA, and what they found was troubling. Globally, people faced three times more "high-temperature days" in 2020 than in 2008, and people's ratings of their lives decreased by 6.5%. Given current climate projections, high-temperature days could sink global life evaluations by 17% by the year 2030.
That would be a huge decline in how everyday citizens across 160 countries and territories view their entire lives related to rising temperatures. Turkiye, Mexico and China stand to be hit the hardest.
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| 4. Are the Kiddos Safe at School?
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In a troubling sign of the times, American parents' fear for their children's safety at school has hit a relatively high 44%. While our question does not mention gun violence, parental worry typically increases after particularly high-profile school shootings. The attack on a school in Uvalde, Texas, predated our latest poll by three months, while record-high parental worry was recorded on the heels of the Columbine massacre in the 1990s. We also found that in 20% of households with school-aged children, the kids themselves have expressed concern for their safety on campus, a relatively high rate for this trend also.
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| 5. Nuclear Power in Eastern Europe
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| As concern about the security of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant continues, and the United Nations' team remains on-site in Ukraine, many are wondering how the war there will affect future generations' perceptions of the safety of nuclear power. Before the war and the ensuing reports of heavy fighting near nuclear facilities, we asked people across Eastern Europe — in partnership with Lloyd's Register Foundation — if they saw nuclear energy as mostly helping or mostly harming people in their country in the next 20 years. At that time, Eastern Europeans were pretty mixed.
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And that's The Week in Charts!
Mohamed Younis
Editor-in-Chief
Gallup
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