Welcome to the Misery Index, where the only thing more abundant than despair is the number of people who are clearly having a bad day.
Here, we track the ratio of people who are miserable to those who are not, because who needs actual happiness when you can have misery?
Our current misery index: 3.72:1 (and rising)
Visit our sister site, The Optimism Index, for the opposite experience.
People Miserable: 1,000,000+
People Happy: 270,000
People in a State of Neutral Boredom: 400,000+
Because life is just too short for actual joy, and someone had to create this place.
Visit our Methodology Page to see how we calculate our index.
Or, if you're a glutton for punishment, Contribute to our misery and help us drive our numbers even higher.