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High life satisfaction reported among small-scale societies with low incomes

Published:2024-02-05 Issue:7 Volume:121 Page:
ISSN:0027-8424
Container-title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

Author:

Galbraith Eric D.¹²³^ORCID,Barrington-Leigh Christopher⁴⁵^ORCID,Miñarro Sara¹,Álvarez-Fernández Santiago¹,Attoh Emmanuel M. N. A. N.⁶⁷,Benyei Petra¹⁸,Calvet-Mir Laura¹⁹,Carmona Rosario¹⁰,Chakauya Rumbidzayi¹¹,Chen Zhuo¹²,Chengula Fasco¹³,Fernández-Llamazares Álvaro¹¹⁴^ORCID,García-del-Amo David¹,Glauser Marcos¹⁵,Huanca Tomas¹⁶,Izquierdo Andrea E.¹⁷,Junqueira André B.¹,Lanker Marisa¹⁸,Li Xiaoyue¹^ORCID,Mariel Juliette¹⁹,Miara Mohamed D.²⁰²¹,Porcher Vincent¹,Porcuna-Ferrer Anna¹¹⁹,Schlingmann Anna¹,Seidler Reinmar²²,Shrestha Uttam Babu²³^ORCID,Singh Priyatma²⁴,Torrents-Ticó Miquel¹⁴²⁵^ORCID,Ulambayar Tungalag²⁶,Wu Rihan²⁷²⁸,Reyes-García Victoria¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona 08193, Spain

2. ICREA, Barcelona 08010, Spain

3. Department of Earth and Planetary Science, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A0E8, Canada

4. Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1G1, Canada

5. Bieler School of Environment, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada

6. Water Systems and Global Change Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen 6700 HB, Netherlands

7. International Water Management Institute, Colombo 10120, Sri Lanka

8. Instituto de Economía, Geografía y Demografía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid 28037, Spain

9. Institut Metròpoli, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona 08193, Spain

10. Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile

11. College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, University of South Africa, Florida, 1710 Johannesburg, South Africa

12. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland

13. Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam 16103, Tanzania

14. Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland

15. Iniciativa Amotocodie, Asunción 1137, Paraguay

16. Boliviano de Investigación y de Desarrollo Socio Integral, San Borja, Bolivia

17. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba 5000, Argentina

18. The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706

19. Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Unité Mixte de Recherche Savoirs-Environnement-Sociétés (UMR SENS), Montpellier 34398, France

20. Department of Nature and Life Sciences, Ibn Khaldoun University, Tiaret 14000, Algeria

21. Laboratory of Agro-Biotechnology and Nutrition Research in Semi-Arid Areas, Ibn Khaldoun University, Tiaret 14000, Algeria

22. Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA 02215

23. Global Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal

24. School of Science and Technology, University of Fiji, Saweni, Lautoka, Fiji

25. Global Change and Conservation, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland

26. Zoological Society of London, Mongolia Representative Office, Ulaanbaatar 14201, Mongolia

27. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

28. Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, Oslo 0155, Norway

Abstract

Global polls have shown that people in high-income countries generally report being more satisfied with their lives than people in low-income countries. The persistence of this correlation, and its similarity to correlations between income and life satisfaction within countries, could lead to the impression that high levels of life satisfaction can only be achieved in wealthy societies. However, global polls have typically overlooked small-scale, nonindustrialized societies, which can provide an alternative test of the consistency of this relationship. Here, we present results from a survey of 2,966 members of Indigenous Peoples and local communities among 19 globally distributed sites. We find that high average levels of life satisfaction, comparable to those of wealthy countries, are reported for numerous populations that have very low monetary incomes. Our results are consistent with the notion that human societies can support very satisfying lives for their members without necessarily requiring high degrees of monetary wealth.

Funder

EC | European Research Council

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2311703121

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