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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:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland3.48
2 Israel3.45
3 Denmark3.43
4 Sweden3.38
5 South Africa3.36
6 Republic of Korea3.35
7 United States3.32
8 Croatia3.30
9 Australia3.26
10 Czech Republic3.21
11 United Kingdom3.14
12 Spain3.10
13 Norway3.08
14 France3.06
15 Slovakia3.05
16 Finland3.03
16 Netherlands3.03
18 Slovenia3.01
19 Belgium2.99
20 Germany2.97
20 Philippines2.97
22 Bulgaria2.92
23 Turkiye2.89
24 Japan 2.88
25 China2.82
26 Chile2.81
26 Italy2.81
28 Poland2.76
29 Portugal2.67
30 Lithuania2.56
31 Taiwan2.54
32 Russian Federation2.37

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 206 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.848455 X +3.956
Correlation coefficient (r)0.364
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 42939.952442 X -92092.856
Correlation coefficient (r)0.484
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.234

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 4.962602 X +63.682
Correlation coefficient (r)0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.518642 X +0.051
Correlation coefficient (r)0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -0.385969 X +11.715
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.019
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000