The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index monitors the subjective wellbeing of over 2,000 Australian adults. This year’s results show Australian's satisfaction with life has hit an all-time low. Satisfaction with health also slumped to an unprecedented low. Personal wellbeing scores and satisfaction with life “as a whole” both continue to remain very low.

This report, detailing survey data collected in May 2022, found Australia’s subjective wellbeing declined across all measures as the country faces a polycrisis of cost-of-living pressures, climate change and global uncertainty, amidst an ongoing health pandemic. This marks the first time in over a decade that such a consistent downtrend has been observed across all...

This report presents findings from Report 33.0 of the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index (AUWI), an annual measure of Australians’ perception and satisfaction with their life in Australia.

The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index monitors the subjective wellbeing of the Australian population. The first survey was conducted in April 2001 and this report concerns the 19th survey, undertaken in April 2008.