What Hannah Ritchie thinks about happiness
Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes Sustainability by Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of her, and revises in public when they say something she did not expect.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Hannah Ritchie has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsYoung people tend to be happier than older generations, but not in the Anglosphere
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Their wordsThis pattern of the young being much happier is concentrated in post-communist countries: Croatia, Serbia, Moldova, Montenegro, and Bulgaria.