Happiness levels over the past two years have been at their highest since 1994, when Polish people were asked about their avowed happiness for the first time. At the end of 2016 just over three quarters of adults (76%) said they were happy with their lives as a whole, the same proportion as a year previously. The percentage of those who declared themselves to be moderately happy with their lives was also virtually unchanged (21%). There continued to be only a small group who expressed unhappiness with their lives in general (3%), and most of these actually said they were rather unhappy (2%). The biggest influence on how happy people felt about their lives was their perception of what the future held for them.

More on this subject in the CBOS report.