The midlife crisis really comes at 47

A new study has shown that people from developed countries feel most unhappy at age 47,2. In developing countries, this figure is 48,2 years.

Scientists called 47,2 years the worst age for residents of developed countries such as Japan or the Netherlands. This is exactly the same mid-life crisis that scientists so often argue about. Someone claims that this concept is invented, while someone is sure that the crisis really exists. And now it turns out that there really is an age at which a person feels most unhappy throughout his life. In countries, this happens at 48,2 years, as established by scientists from The Dartmouth College led by Professor David Blanchflower, who himself always felt satisfaction with life, but believed that this feeling develops along the spiral of the letter U.

Blanchflower created a massive database and found distortions of happiness in residents of 132 countries. Although the trajectories of these distortions changed and differed greatly from country to country, the basis remained the same. For example, in Americans, the level of happiness from the hopeless optimism of 18-year-olds plummeted until middle age. The decline slowed slightly in the 30s, but then accelerated again to nearly 50.

The professor's database contains only the results of observations, but not explanations of the phenomenon of the midlife crisis. And other experts have repeatedly emphasized that this crisis is characteristic not only of humans, but even of chimpanzees. There is a change in life values, some ambitions that have never been realized recede into the background. But after 50, the pleasure of life begins to grow again, which happens up to retirement age, when life begins to be poisoned by senile infirmities and diseases.