Gallup’s new global emotions report published on Wednesday stated that Afghanistan has ranked as the least positive country in the world. The survey, which focused on five negative experiences, has been conducted in 142 countries.
The Gallup surveys has been conducted in July and August 2022 and showed that 98 percent of Afghans rated their life so poorly that they were considered as suffering.
According to Gallup surveys, Afghan participants said that after the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, people’s lives have become worse than at any time in the last ten years.
Although the Taliban officials have repeatedly talked about improvements in the life of Afghans due to better security situation, however, Afghans’ feelings about the quality of life in Afghanistan have also worsened since the beginning of the Taliban reign in Afghanistan in 2021.
According to the Gallup surveys, in 2021, 94 percent of Afghans had described their life as extremely bad.
Gallup added that Afghanistan has ranked as the least positive country in the world every year since 2017, apart from 2020 when Gallup could not survey the country because of the pandemic.
According to the 2018 Gallup survey, the violence caused by the insurgency and war in Afghanistan and poverty had a devastating impact on the lives of the Afghan people during which 36 percent of Afghans said that they don’t remember to have smiled or laughed in the previous day when the survey was conducted.
The Taliban have reacted to reports of international organisations and have rejected these reports as foreign propaganda.
