In contrast to quitting drinking entirely, the majority of respondents who simply want to 'cut down on drinking' will keep their resolutions.

Nearly 60% of people that want to do more exercise or improve their fitness will break their new year's resolution.

'Spending less time on social media' is amongst the more difficult-to-keep new year's resolutions, confirming the thight grip that social media companies - such as Facebook Meta - have on our lives.

'Raising money for a charity' is the easiest new year's resolution, with a success rate of 70%.

'Quitting drinking entirely' is the most difficult-to-keep new year's resolution.

Some interesting observations from this data: We tracked all individually made new year's resolutions, and asked our respondents whether or not they kept or broken them. How many new year's resolutions are broken?ĭespite all these positive hopes and dreams for 2022, the data proves that almost half of these resolutions will likely be broken.Ĥ7.4% of all new year's resolutions will likely be broken. It's been proven that people who are unfit or overweight score significantly lower on happiness and overall mental health. It's easy to see why 'Doing more exercise or improving my fitness' is ranked at the bottom of the happiness chart. People who want to 'Do more exercise or improve my fitness' as their new year's resolutions are generally the unhappiest.

Doing more exercise or improving my fitness (7.24).

Whereas these following new year's resolutions are made by relatively unhappy people:

Decorating or renovating part of my home (7.67).

The following new year's resolutions are made by people who are happier than average: People who want to 'Raise money for a charity' as their new year's resolutions are generally the happiest. This shows an interesting difference between the happiness of our respondents. We compared the average happiness ratings of 11,574 respondents for each new year's resolution. But do these happy people make different new year's resolutions? Happy people are more likely to make a new year's resolution. 😅 Do happy people make different new year's resolutions? Other - less frequent - new year's resolutions included 'Travel more', 'Stop people-pleasing', 'Quit gambling' and 'Travel to Lake Bled in Slovenia'.

4.5% of people's new year's resolution is 'Quitting drinking entirely'.

7.4% of people's new year's resolution is 'Giving up masturbation'.8.3% of people's new year's resolution is 'Cutting down on drinking'.9.9% of people's new year's resolution is 'Quit watching porn'.

10.4% of people's new year's resolution is 'Giving up smoking'.11.1% of people's new year's resolution is 'Raising money for a charity'.12.3% of people's new year's resolution is 'Decorating or renovating part of my home'.14.5% of people's new year's resolution is 'Volunteering or doing more charity work'.17.8% of people's new year's resolution is 'Spending less time on social media'.26.6% of people's new year's resolution is 'Taking up a new hobby'.

31.9% of people's new year's resolution is 'Spending more time with family'.

32.0% of people's new year's resolution is 'Pursuing a career ambition'.

34.2% of people's new year's resolution is 'Improving my diet'.

36.5% of people's new year's resolution is 'Doing more exercise or improving my fitness'.

36.8% of people's new year's resolution is 'Losing weight'.

54.2% of people's new year's resolution is 'Saving more money'.

The most popular new year's resolution for 2022 is to 'save more money'.īased on this data, we’ve learned some statistics about the popularity of different new year's resolutions: In total, these respondents choose 40,735 new year's resolutions, at an average of 3.5 new year's resolutions per person. Of all the 14,458 respondents in our survey, the majority (80%) replied that they were planning on making at least one new year's resolution.

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