Compared to the trends on January 2020, has Australia or Sweden lost more wellbeing in 2020? And which has seen the greater damage to expected future wellbeing years for after 2020? The Table below summarizes the answers to this.
For the first calculation, let us only count the main elements going into the wellbeing of these two countries in 2020: the experienced wellbeing of the population in 2020 and the excess deaths in 2020. Lots of the other things we normally look at in these covid-calculations, such as changes to GDP, will show up in the anticipated effects for after 2020.
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First, what was the wellbeing drop in Australia? Well, an ANU-sponsored longitudinal panel found a drop from 6.9 to 6.5 in their life-satisfaction poll from January to April, a huge decline that is similar to the drop in the UK. This panel is based on over 3,000 individuals, which is why this drop is strongly statistically significant.
COVID-19 has been a shot in the arm for confidence in the federal government, but Australians retain more trust in its state and territory equivalents, new analysis shows. Confidence in the federal government has almost doubled to 54.3 per cent since February 2020, according to an Australian National University survey of more than 3000 Australians. It was in the doldrums at just 27.3 per cent in February 2020, when Prime Minister Scott Morrison faced a backlash over his response to the Black Summer bushfires. But a new crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, prompted a major U-turn in perception, said co-author Nicholas Biddle. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a ‘shot in the arm’ for Scott Morrison, says an expert. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ David Crosling
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