"Figure 9: Those who were optimistic about the future of the country had higher life satisfaction on average","" "Optimism about the future of the UK by average life satisfaction, Great Britain, January, February and April 2019 ","" "","" "Notes","1. Full details of the questions can be found in the [Annex](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/methodologies/optimismandpersonalwellbeingtechnicalreport#annex)." "Unit","Average life satisfaction" "","" "","Estimate","Lower confidence limit","Upper confidence limit" "The country’s best
years are behind us ","7.35","7.18","7.53" "Neither","7.73","7.6","7.85" "The country’s best
years are ahead of us","7.94","7.72","8.16"