Quality Of Life In The UK November 2022

12th November 2022

From the Office for National Statistics.

This release provides an update on 10 of the 44 indicators across 10 domains of national well-being, using the latest data available as of October 2022.

The percentage of adults reporting very high levels of life satisfaction, feeling things they do in life are worthwhile, and very low levels of anxiety remained similar between the latest quarter (Quarter 2, Apr to June 2022) and the previous quarter (Quarter 1, Jan to Mar 2022), while a greater percentage of adults (32.28%) reported very high levels of happiness in the latest quarter compared with the previous quarter (30.47%).

In Quarter 2 2022, 10.43% of young people were not in education, employment or training, similar to Quarter 1 2022 (10.38%).

For Quarter 2 2022, 88.4% of adults in England aged 16 years and over reported that they engaged with arts in person (attended an event or participated in an activity) in the last 12 months, similar to Quarter 1 2022, (86.9%).

The UK's national disposable income per person was estimated at £6,053 in Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2020, a 14% decrease from £7,063 in Quarter 4 2019.

The UK's public sector net debt in the latest quarter (July to Sept 2022) reached 98.0% of gross domestic product (GDP).

This bulletin is accompanied by the Measures of National Well-being Dashboard: Quality of Life in the UK.

On 3 October 2022, we launched a review of the ONS Measures of National Well-being and you can share your feedback and contribute to the review by filling in our online survey; the survey is open until 25 November 2022.

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