General Article Personal and economic well-being in the UK: April 2019 Office for National Statistics bulletin

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While average anxiety levels reached a three-year low in 2018, about 10.3 million people continued to report high anxiety scores.

 

By Gueorguie Vassilev, Silvia Manclossi, Sunny Sidhu, Jack Yull and Ed Pyle from the Economic Well-being and Quality of Life Teams, Office for National Statistics

While average anxiety levels reached a three-year low in 2018, about 10.3 million people continued to report high anxiety scores. In the year ending December 2018, the average rating of anxiety in the UK reached its lowest level since the year ending December 2015. UK, average ratings of anxiety for the year ending December 2012 to December 2018.

Alongside increases in real household disposable income, there has been an improvement in the average ratings of anxiety. Between the years ending December 2017 and December 2018, anxiety scores fell across the UK from 2.91 to 2.85 measured on a scale from 0 to 10. This was the lowest average rating of anxiety since the year ending December 2015 and r...

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