Historically, wellbeing research has largely focused on adults in developed countries . There has been little research on the self-reported (i.e., subjective) wellbeing of children and or adolescents, particularly in developing countries . Similarly, there has been minuscule research, which focuses comparisons of subjective wellbeing among different adolescent groups (e.g., gender, age, ethnicity, parental education, economic status and physical activity etc.) There are an estimated 1.2 billion young people aged 10–19 in the world, comprising the largest generation of adolescents in history . Approximately 70 percent of these young people live in developing countries where complex economic, social, political and environmental contexts create a wide range of challenges for adolescents to surmount as they journey to adulthood. Many of these disadvantaged adolescents have few personal resources and little social support to confront the conditions that propagate poverty, inequity, and gender discrimination. Data indicate that more than half of all youth live in poverty worldwide