Lebanon ranked the world’s angriest country, according to a study by Statista, published on June 24, 2022. (Credit: Photo site statista.com)
BEIRUT — A Gallup Global Emotions Report has ranked Lebanon the angriest country in the world, based on figures published Saturday through Statista.
Here’s what we know:
• The report utilizes data gathered between 2021 and 2022 in over 100 countries, in which 1000 people aged 15 and older were surveyed and asked whether they had experienced anger in the past day. Of respondents in Lebanon, 49 percent replied that they had indeed felt something akin to rage in the previous 24 hours. Turkey’s citizens are apparently somewhat less exasperated, with only 48 percent of respondents admitting to such feelings in the past day. Armenia and Iraq were tied with 46 percent of respondents admitting to feeling vexed, followed by Afghanistan with 41 percent confessing to having felt somewhat cross.
• “Anger manifests [itself] more frequently in certain parts of the world, notably the Middle and Near East,” the study concludes. The work cites Lebanon’s economic crisis, dating from 2019, as an irritant to its citizens, along with the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut port blast.