According to a U.S. analysis published on Monday, China's economic growth over the last 20 years has generally been met with declining happiness, AFP reported.

The study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is based on six different surveys on self-reported satisfaction with life since 1990, a period when China's gross domestic product per capita increased fourfold.

In 1990, 68 percent of those in the wealthiest income bracket and 65 percent of those in the poorest reported high levels of satisfaction. But the latter figure has fallen more than 23 percentage points in the past two decades. Only 42 percent of Chinese people in the lowest income bracket reported high levels of life satisfaction in 2010. Meanwhile, the wealthiest Chinese who said they were satisfied with their lives grew about three percentage points, to 71 percent.

(China.org.cn May 16, 2012)

法新社報道，根據美國周一發布的一份分析報告顯示，中國過去20年經濟增長隨之而來的是幸福感下滑。

該研究發表在《國家科學院院刊》上，基于自1990年以來6份不同的自我報告的生活滿意度調查。1990年以來，中國人均國內生產總值增加了4倍。

1990年，68%的最富裕人群和65%的最貧困人群表示對生活很滿意。但是，第二個比例在過去20年下降了逾23個百分點。2010年，僅42%收入最低的中國人表示生活滿意度很高。同時，對生活滿意的最富裕的中國人的比例增加了約3個百分點，達71%。