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Life satisfaction in the European Union has seen a general growth trend between 2022 and 2023, with the score recorded for the EU as a whole increasing from *** out of 10 to *** out of 10 in 2023. At the same time, the decline between 2018 and 2022 could be explined by the  The COVID-19 pandemic and related public health restrictions as life satisfaction tended to decrease due to the isolating effects of lockdowns, while the economic conditions such as historically high inflation have also led to dissatisfaction in the years since the beginning of the pandemic. Germany, in particular, has seen a dramatic decline in its citizens' evaluations of their own life satisfaction, as Germans' life satisfaction score declined from *** in 2018, the highest of all the included countries in that year, to *** in 2023. The country's economy has struggled with stagflation in the aftermath of the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, while political and social polarization has also been a growing problem in Germany during the early .Ìý