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Life satisfaction
Part of the Trust and Wellbeing domain. Mean self-reported life satisfaction score on a 0–10 scale from the ONS Annual Population Survey well-being module.
Latest data
Latest reading
Q4 2025
A lower reading is treated as worse for this indicator.
Score composition
Stress score
Blended from three components: (60% weight), trend (30% weight) and volatility (10% weight). Full formula on the methodology page.
Level · 60% weight
Percentile: this metric is scored against its own history, where today sits between its best and worst recorded years.
Trend · 30% weight
Neutral: the latest reading matches the one before it, so no change is measured.
Volatility · 10% weight
16Measured from how much this indicator has swung period on period across its recorded history.
Data confidence and provenance
Confidence and source
How much weight to put on the reading, the mean data-confidence across the component metrics (source quality, recency and completeness).
Source
UK Measures of National Well-being Dashboard
- Update frequency
- Quarterly/Annual
- Reliability
- high
Provenance
- Provider
- Office for National Statistics
- Series ID
- Mean life satisfaction score (0 to 10), UK, quarterly APS
- Frequency
- quarterly
- Accessed
- 13 August 2026
Known weakness
Self-reported subjective measure; mean scores compress distributional differences and the 0–10 scale is not interval-calibrated across respondents.
Notes
Verified official value from Office for National Statistics (Mean life satisfaction score (0 to 10), UK, quarterly APS), accessed 2026-08-13.
Historical values
History
| Period | Value | Relative |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7.4 | |
| 2012 | 7.5 | |
| 2013 | 7.5 | |
| 2014 | 7.6 | |
| 2015 | 7.6 | |
| 2016 | 7.7 | |
| 2017 | 7.7 | |
| 2018 | 7.7 | |
| 2019 | 7.7 | |
| 2020 | 7.3 | |
| 2021 | 7.6 | |
| 2022 | 7.5 | |
| 2023 | 7.5 | |
| Q4 2024 | 7.5 | |
| Q4 2025 | 7.5 |