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An average of 13% of adults worldwide rated their lives poorly enough to be "suffering" in 2011. Suffering ranged from 45% in Bulgaria to 1% or less in the United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Canada, Thailand, and Brazil.

Nearly one-quarter of adults worldwide rated their lives highly enough to be "thriving," according to Gallup surveys in 146 countries in 2011. Thriving ranged from a high of 74% in Denmark to a low of 2% in Cambodia.

Taking back some of the gains U.S. leadership enjoyed in 2009, approval of U.S. leadership experienced a large drop in four out of six Arab League countries surveyed in 2010.

Only 33% of Americans say the Bush administration should step up its response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raging in the Gaza Strip. Also, 75% say Barack Obama should wait until he’s sworn in to voice his position on the matter.

The EU's leadership is much more popular in sub-Saharan Africa than in the EU, according to Gallup surveys in 125 countries between 2010 and 2011. Residents in the Middle East and North Africa region are the most critical, while the EU's ...

Palestinians living in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip are far less likely than Israelis to believe their own peoples' children "have the opportunity to learn and grow every day" and are "treated with dignity and respect."

In Arab countries, young people who are employed, highly educated, and aspire to create their own business are those most likely to say they would like to leave their country permanently, if they had the opportunity. The findings are based on ...

Recent Gallup surveys in Yemen reveal the average Yemeni sees greater interaction between the Muslim world and the West as a benefit (53%) and views the quality of this interaction as personally important (59%).

Given their liberation by U.S. forces in the Gulf War, one might expect Kuwaitis to be less critical of the United States than populations in many other predominantly Muslim countries. But that's not the case: 70% of Kuwaiti residents -- ...

More than four in five Americans (83%) say Israel is justified in its current military action in Lebanon, but only 50% approve. The gap reflects the large well of concern that Israel's actions in Lebanon have been excessive. One-third of ...