Armenia reports one of highest rates of life satisfaction among teens: study

PanARMENIAN.Net - The World Health Organization got thousands of teenagers around the world to open up about their feelings.

Almost 220,000 young people from 42 countries took part in the study. While the vast majority of teenagers said they were satisfied with their life, there were a few countries that were far less happy, Quartz said.

Teenagers from Armenia and Moldova reported some of the highest rates of satisfaction, whilst fifteen-year-olds from Poland were among the least satisfied with their lives on average compared with their peers across the globe. The report notes that boys generally reported higher life satisfaction across all age groups and countries. Unsurprisingly, the teenagers from the most affluent countries were the ones who reported higher life satisfaction.

Prevalence of weekly smoking increased significantly by age in all countries and regions except in one for boys (Armenia) and three for girls (Albania, Armenia and Norway).

In terms of drunkenness initiation, prevalence increased significantly and substantially between ages 11 and 15 for boys and girls in all countries and regions, with the exception of girls in Armenia.

When asked whether they liked school a lot, only 5% of French-speaking Belgian 15-year-olds said they did, compared with 58% of 15-year-olds from Armenia, which is the highest result.