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Question: During the past 4 weeks how often have you felt unhappy and depressed?
Choices: "Never" "Rarely" "Sometimes" "Often" "Very often"
Data: % of "Sometimes" "Often" "Very often"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia42.8%
2 South Africa42.7%
3 United Kingdom41.3%
4 Suriname37.3%
5 Israel36.9%
6 Lithuania35.2%
7 Sweden34.0%
8 Croatia33.9%
9 Finland33.4%
10 France33.3%
11 Hungary32.3%
12 Philippines32.2%
13 China31.2%
14 Taiwan30.1%
15 United States29.6%
16 Czech Republic29.2%
17 New Zealand28.6%
18 Japan28.4%
19 Iceland 28.1%
20 Spain26.9%
21 India26.5%
22 Slovakia25.9%
23 Thailand23.1%
24 Denmark22.4%
25 Switzerland21.7%
26 Russian Federation21.5%
27 Germany21.1%
28 Mexico19.7%
29 Austria19.3%
30 Slovenia14.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.027514 X +6.540
Correlation coefficient (r)0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -27910.419532 X +45992.588
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -14.279387 X +82.640
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.192
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 2.173742 X +1.017
Correlation coefficient (r)0.369
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.136

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 17.256299 X +6.315
Correlation coefficient (r)0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051