ONS: Students feel more lonely than other adults

Survey suggests students also feel their mental health has worsened since September

Students in Britain are currently three times as likely to experience loneliness than the rest of the adult population, data from the Office for National Statistics suggest.

According to experimental data published on 10 March, more than a quarter of students (26 per cent) reported feeling lonely “often or always” in the period 19 February to 1 March 2021, compared with 8 per cent of the wider adult population over a similar period.