Children in Romania were found to be the happiest, with Colombian youngsters second, according to a report by the UK Children’s Society, quoted by Sky News.
The Good Childhood Report 2015 examined how 53,000 children aged 10 and 12 in a range of countries felt about themselves.
When asked if they were unhappy with life as a whole, just one out of every 100 youngsters in Romania said “yes”, compared to one in 14 in England.
For instance, an English girls also had the second-lowest score for body confidence, with young women giving themselves an average of 7.3 out of ten compared to top scoring Romania’s 9.4.
The report revealed that school children in England and South Korea are among the unhappiest in the world.
English youngsters were less satisfied with life than those in 13 other countries out of the 15 surveyed, with only those in South Korea unhappier. Children in England scored the lowest out of all 15 countries for self-confidence.
The survey also found that nearly four out of ten students (38%) aged 10 and 12 in England reported that they had been physically bullied in the past month and half (50%) had felt excluded at school.
The study’s results come in the wake of a report that revealed that primary and secondary pupils face all this unhappiness as a result of the high performance pressure at school.