would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a cleaner in Saudi Arabia

1 stranger working as cleaner in Saudi Arabia have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 4.0 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 32% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 52% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
4.0/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
5.9h/ night
sleep
18h/ week
free time
$2,640/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade32%
would not trade52%
unsure16%

137 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • lonely11
  • exhausting8
  • stressful6
  • meaningful5
  • depressing4
  • enviable3

one cleaner in Saudi Arabia has shared an anonymous fragment of their life. the sample is small — read the numbers below as suggestive, not definitive.

asked whether they would trade lives with cleaners in Saudi Arabia, 137 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly no — slightly more strangers would keep their own: 32% would trade, 52% would not, 16% are unsure.

compared with cleaners worldwide, cleaners in Saudi Arabia are less happy by 1.0 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.4 points, and less envied by 12 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Saudi Arabia, cleaners in Saudi Arabia are less happy by 0.7 points on the 1–10 scale and less stressed by 0.3 points.

how this compares

  • vs all cleaners globally
    happiness -1.0stress +0.4would-trade -12.0pp
  • vs all lives in Saudi Arabia
    happiness -0.7stress -0.3would-trade -4.0pp

fragments