Afghanistan and Lebanon scored the two highest scores in the world on the index, with Iraq in third place and Sierra Leone in fourth, while Jordan ranked fifth.
The Gallup Negative Experience Index is a composite measure of people’s daily experiences of sadness, stress, anxiety, anger, and physical pain, and its results show that life is becoming increasingly difficult in Afghanistan and Lebanon, where people in those countries live in greater misery than anywhere else on the planet.
In an interview with “Sky News Arabia”, the President of the International Federation of Lebanese Businessmen and Women, Fouad Zamakhel, said that the result of the index is an actual embodiment of the misery experienced by the Lebanese, which has affected their mental health, noting that Lebanon is achieving the first ranks in everything related to Inflation and catastrophic numbers.
According to Zamakhel, there are several numbers that justify the Lebanese people’s arrival in this situation, as they lost more than 85 percent of their deposits, which represent “the misery of life.” They also lost 85 percent of their income and 85 percent of their standard of living, due to the economic and financial crisis that The country has been suffering from it for nearly three years.
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Zamkahel added that the Lebanese are also suffering from inflation in prices and their cost of living, which has increased between 20 and 30 times, and they feel that what happened to them “destroyed their lives” and brought them back to zero with “the stroke of a pen” until they are missing the most basic human needs such as hospitalization and education. .
For his part, the Iraqi economic expert Hazem Hadi said in an interview with “Sky News Arabia”, that the five countries that occupied the first ranks in the negative experiences index suffer from an economic decline, and that some of these countries suffer from a continuous deterioration in the price of their local currencies against foreign currencies, which It creates a state of instability and insecurity among the citizens.
According to Hadi, the aforementioned countries can be removed from the “edge of the abyss”, through governments’ adoption of reform and anti-corruption processes, stressing the need for reforms to include the economic, political and social aspects, and other aspects that societies need, and not remain ink on paper.
Hadi believes that the situation in some Arab countries is getting worse day by day, affecting the level of education and health services, raising unemployment and increasing poverty levels, as all these elements have contributed to the brain drain, while a large part of those who remain feel the deterioration of their living and psychological conditions.
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