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Question: In general, would you say your health is...?
Choices: "Excellent" "Very good" "Good" "Fair" "Poor"
Average score (as "Excellent"=5 "Very good"=4 "Good"=3 "Fair"=2 "Poor"=1)
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus3.98
2 Ireland3.82
3 Dominican Republic3.59
4 Poland3.53
5 New Zealand3.51
6 Austria3.50
7 Israel3.49
7 Switzerland3.49
9 Sweden3.48
10 South Africa3.45
11 Republic of Korea3.41
12 United States3.40
13 Argentina3.34
14 Australia3.33
15 Mexico3.30
16 Norway3.27
17 United Kingdom3.26
17 Uruguay3.26
19 Belgium3.14
20 France3.13
21 Slovakia3.11
22 Bulgaria3.07
22 Czech Republic3.07
24 Japan 3.03
25 Croatia3.00
25 Philippines3.00
27 Germany2.99
28 Slovenia2.97
29 Finland2.95
30 Chile2.94
31 Taiwan2.86
32 Hungary2.82
33 Latvia2.76
34 Russian Federation2.16

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.351688 X +5.393
Correlation coefficient (r)0.216
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 29019.277213 X -55555.621
Correlation coefficient (r)0.368
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 4.696058 X +62.792
Correlation coefficient (r)0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.100470 X +1.367
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -4.976895 X +27.033
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.335
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112