Economic growth in China has not led to greater life satisfaction for Chinese people: long-term study

The percentage of the poorest Chinese who say they are satisfied with their lives has fallen more than 23 percentage points. Only 42 percent of Chinese people in the lowest income bracket reported high levels of life satisfaction in 2010, while, at the same time, the percentage of the wealthiest Chinese who said they were satisfied with their lives grew about 3 percentage points, to 71 percent.

Study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - week commencing 14 May 2012

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