World Happiness Report sounds alarm about the welfare of young people

Lack of education, training and housing is behind loss of gen Z’s traditionally positive outlook

• Younger people becoming more unhappy than older generations
• Vivek Murthy: the US surgeon general fighting for youngsters’ happiness

Something is going wrong for young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the UK, across Europe, and in the US.

The latest World Happiness Report shows that while not all teenagers and young adults are suffering, a large and growing number cannot cope with being left adrift with few qualifications on an economic sea that is more testing with each passing year.