A recent report by Gallup on the emotional well-being of people across the globe in 2023 indicates that a significant proportion of Moroccan citizens (38%) experienced heightened levels of negative emotions, such as stress, loneliness and anger.
The Global Emotions Report 2024 surveyed almost 146,000 persons aged 15 and up in 142 nations and territories, assessing emotional well-being with two core indices: the Positive Experience Index and the Negative Experience Index.
The Negative Experience Index rated countries on a scale of 11 to 53, with higher scores suggesting a higher prevalence of bad experiences in the population.
Morocco scored in the higher group in the Negative Experience Index, indicating that its population faced significant issues in terms of emotional well-being last year.
Although Moroccans had significant levels of stress and loneliness, the country ranked in the middle of the Positive Experience Index, which assesses the prevalence of pleasant events and feelings in a country’s population. That score runs from 38 to 86.
Morocco’s average score of 38% suggests that, while happy experiences were not completely lacking, there is still room for improvement in terms of creating a more positive emotional environment.
On the rest of the continent in Africa, Libya and the Democratic Republic of Congo led the continent with 40% of anger issues, followed by Tunisia with 39%, then Morocco, and Guinea with 36%.
The least angry country in Africa, according to the report, is Mauritius with a score of 8%, behind Zimbabwe at 10% and Somalia at 13%.
As for the MENA region, Iraq came in at the top of the list with 47%, followed by Jordan at 42%. Libya came in third, followed by Palestine and Tunisia with 39%, and Morocco, while Algeria and Syria showed no data.
Globally, Vietnam is the least angry country in the world and Asia scoring only 5%, followed by Kazakhstan at 9% and the Russian Federation at 11%.
The most angry citizens in Asia were the Iraqis, followed by Jordaninas and Armenians at 42%, then Pakistan and Israel both at 36%.
In Europe, Estonia and Finland led the continent with only 7% of citizens reporting anger, then Portugal at 8%, and Netherlands, Croatia, and Iceland together ranking third at 9%.
The angriest citizens in both Europe and the world were in Northern Cyprus, at 49%. Turkey follows with 34%, and Northern Macedonia ranked third with 36%.
For the Americas, Mexico ranked as the least angry country with only 8%, followed by Uruguay with 9%, and Paraguay, Panama, and Dominican Republic with 12% of angry citizens.
Bolivia was the angriest country in the Americas with 28% angry citizens, followed by Peru 23%, and Ecuador 21%.
The study also noted a worldwide trend, stating that, while the globe encompassed continuous hostilities in 2023, such as the continuance of the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the commencement of Israel’s assault on Gaza, general emotional well-being had improved since the height of the pandemic.