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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 India3.78
2 Israel3.70
3 New Zealand3.61
3 Switzerland3.61
5 Hungary3.57
6 Sweden3.53
7 Slovakia3.52
8 Austria3.51
9 South Africa3.48
10 United States3.43
11 Australia3.40
11 Denmark3.40
13 Iceland3.37
14 Mexico3.29
15 Croatia3.28
16 Taiwan3.26
17 Slovenia3.22
18 Czech Republic3.21
18 Spain3.21
20 United Kingdom3.20
21 Finland3.17
22 France3.12
23 Germany3.11
24 Philippines3.03
25 China2.89
26 Suriname2.84
27 Lithuania2.80
28 Thailand2.79
29 Russian Federation2.68
30 Japan 2.37

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 = 0.251509 X +5.729
Correlation coefficient (r)0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 27100.050646 X -52129.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.560498 X +75.915
Correlation coefficient (r)0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.407320 X +0.405
Correlation coefficient (r)0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -3.577839 X +23.004
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047