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Question: Thinking of your household's total income, including all the sources of income of all the members who contribute to it, how difficult or easy is it currently for your household to make ends meet?
Choices: "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly easy" "Very easy"
Data: % of "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines 72.2%
2 Venezuela62.4%
3 Suriname54.7%
4 South Africa52.2%
5 Russian Federation51.6%
6 Japan51.0%
7 Chile50.2%
8 Bulgaria49.4%
9 Italy37.9%
10 Israel33.9%
11 Lithuania32.3%
12 Thailand29.9%
13 United Kingdom28.2%
14 Croatia28.1%
15 Taiwan25.5%
15 United States25.5%
17 Slovenia22.6%
18 Australia22.3%
19 New Zealand21.4%
20 Czech Republic19.8%
21 Austria19.0%
22 Germany18.8%
23 Switzerland18.6%
24 France17.1%
25 Finland16.3%
26 Sweden13.5%
27 Iceland13.4%
28 Norway13.1%
29 Denmark8.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -3.117573 X +7.579
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.796
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.634

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -122564.800699 X +79366.779
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.767
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.588

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -21.140917 X +85.525
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.687
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.472

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 1.285913 X +1.272
Correlation coefficient (r)0.516
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.266

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 1.762090 X +10.516
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003