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Utah scores best by far across 13 forward-looking metrics that might determine which U.S. states will be the best places to live in the future. West Virginia scores lowest.

Seventeen percent of U.S. adults report that they felt significant loneliness the previous full day, down from three different highs of 25% in 2020 and early 2021.

On a state-by-state basis, U.S. adults' satisfaction with their own standard of living -- that is, "all the things you can buy and do" -- falls in a fairly narrow range, from 82.3% in North Dakota at the high end to 69% in Nevada at the low end.

Gallup editors offer their picks for some of the most important world discoveries -- and most highly read international stories -- in 2022.

A Global Wellbeing Initiative study finds people worldwide are more likely to feel at peace with their own thoughts than to not, but this is not true everywhere.

For the third year in a row, Connecticut residents were the most likely to say they visited a dentist in the last 12 months, followed closely by those in Massachusetts. Mississippians were least likely to say they go to the dentist.

Even as the West slapped Russia with economic sanctions after invading Ukraine, Russians remained upbeat about their local economic conditions.

Hawaii had the lowest obesity rate in the U.S. in 2014, at 19.0%. For the second year in a row, Mississippi had the highest obesity rate, with 35.2% of residents classified as obese according to residents' self-reported height and weight.

Read about the state of education in the U.S., Americans' perceptions of taxes in their state, global approval of U.S. leadership, and more in this week's review.

Eighty-nine percent of Wyoming residents believe their local teachers are well-respected, the highest percentage in the U.S. In Nevada and Louisiana, slightly more than six in 10 residents say this about their teachers.