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Question: If you were to consider your life in general, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
Choices: "Completely happy" "Very happy" "Fairly happy" "Neither happy nor unhappy" "Fairly unhappy" "Very unhappy" "Completely unhappy"
Average score (as "Completely happy"=7 "Very happy"=6 "Fairly happy"=5 "Neither happy nor unhappy"=4 "Fairly unhappy"=3 "Very unhappy"=2 "Completely unhappy"=1)
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico5.58
2 Japan 5.56
3 Austria5.54
3 Chile5.54
5 Switzerland5.52
5 United States5.52
7 New Zealand5.48
8 United Kingdom5.43
9 Brazil5.42
10 Philippines5.40
11 Australia5.39
12 Denmark5.35
12 Ireland5.35
14 Israel5.32
15 Cyprus5.29
15 Norway5.29
17 Netherlands5.28
18 Finland5.26
18 France5.26
20 Spain5.24
20 Sweden5.24
22 Belgium5.20
23 Taiwan5.19
24 Slovenia5.18
25 Portugal5.15
26 Germany5.12
27 Czech Republic5.03
28 Hungary4.99
29 Poland4.97
30 Slovakia4.88
31 Latvia4.85
32 Russian Federation4.83
33 Bulgaria4.53

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 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.985995 X +1.475
Correlation coefficient (r)0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 39823.728124 X -167357.795
Correlation coefficient (r)0.368
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 7.923579 X +37.369
Correlation coefficient (r)0.424
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.180

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.175959 X +0.730
Correlation coefficient (r)0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -4.032558 X +30.853
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066