"Figure 10: Those who were optimistic that today’s youth will have a better life than their parents had higher life satisfaction on average","" "Optimism about the future of today’s youth, 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" "Unlikely","7.44","7.29","7.59" "Neither likley nor unlikely","7.71","7.5","7.92" "Likely","7.82","7.62","8.02"