Gallup Poll: “The percentage of Greeks who rate their lives so poorly that they are considered “suffering” has more than tripled to 24% in 2011, from 7% in 2007. Greeks are more likely to be suffering than “thriving,” a reality uncommon in the developed world…Greeks’ current life evaluation — with 14% thriving, 62% struggling, and 24% suffering — is also low compared with ratings in other European countries surveyed so far in 2011. More Greeks are now classified as suffering than those living in several other European nations, including those in other countries hard hit by the financial and economic crisis such as Ireland and Italy. Suffering is higher only in Hungary (29%), Romania (30%), and Bulgaria (42%), and thriving is significantly lower only in Bulgaria.”