Happiness and life satisfaction changes as we pass through different life stages and experience life events according to research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

The study revealed satisfaction sharply decreases in teenage years and young adults, gradually declines from the early 20s to mid-30s and is at the lowest level from the mid-30s to your early 50s.

Happiness steadily improves from the early 50s until the early 80s. In people over 80 years of age, happiness declines a little but remains higher than earlier periods of life.

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