Gallup
By Allison Linn
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We may be living in difficult economic times, but a little more than half of all Americans are still considered to be thriving, according to a Gallup analysis.
Gallup finds that for 2011, 52.5 percent of Americans would be considered thriving based on its analysis of people?s perception of their own lives.
That?s actually a slightly lower percentage than in 2010, when 53.2 percent of Americans were thriving. But it?s an improvement over 2008 and 2009, when the economy was in worse shape than it is now.
Still, that doesn?t mean we should pop the champagne corks. Gallup said that 43.8 percent of the respondents are considered to be struggling, while about?3.7 percent ranked as suffering. Both of those percentages increased slightly over 2010.
Given the economic recession and aftermath we are still going though, it may come as a surprise that such a high percentage of Americans consider themselves to be doing well.
That may?be partly because the metric asks respondents both how they are faring now and how they expect to be faring in five years. Respondents are considered to be thriving both if they rate their lives well now and if they expect things to be going well in the future. The pollsters then use the self-described rankings to label the respondents as thriving, struggling or suffering.
People who make more than $90,000 a year were much more likely to be described as thriving than those who make less money. Younger people also were more likely to be considered thriving than older people, according to Gallup.
How would you describe your life?
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