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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:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland5.50
2 United States5.45
3 Poland5.42
4 Australia5.34
5 Israel5.33
5 Netherlands5.33
7 Philippines5.32
8 Denmark5.27
9 United Kingdom5.26
10 Japan 5.23
11 Norway5.21
12 Germany5.18
12 Slovenia5.18
12 Sweden5.18
15 Finland5.14
16 Taiwan5.13
17 Czech Republic5.12
18 Slovakia5.10
19 Belgium5.08
20 South Africa5.06
20 Spain5.06
22 Croatia5.05
23 France5.01
24 Chile4.99
25 Republic of Korea4.82
26 Portugal4.80
27 Bulgaria4.75
28 Italy4.69
29 Turkiye4.67
30 Russian Federation4.60
31 Lithuania4.55

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 1.424599 X -0.707
Correlation coefficient (r)0.550
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.303

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 53017.671478 X -231023.062
Correlation coefficient (r)0.540
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.292

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 5.651649 X +50.058
Correlation coefficient (r)0.273
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.509175 X -0.944
Correlation coefficient (r)0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -4.330696 X +32.710
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.207
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043