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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela5.81
2 Argentina5.69
3 Philippines5.66
4 Mexico5.64
5 Iceland5.59
6 Switzerland5.58
7 United States5.50
8 Croatia5.48
9 Chile5.47
10 Canada5.46
11 Australia5.43
12 Poland5.42
13 Portugal5.39
13 United Kingdom5.39
15 Israel5.37
16 Ireland5.35
17 Netherlands5.32
18 Austria5.31
18 Finland5.31
20 Denmark5.27
20 Spain5.27
22 Germany5.26
22 Norway5.26
24 Sweden5.25
25 Japan 5.23
26 Belgium5.21
27 France5.20
28 Taiwan5.18
29 India5.15
29 Slovenia5.15
31 Czech Republic5.12
32 Slovakia5.10
33 China5.09
33 South Africa5.09
35 Turkiye4.99
36 Latvia4.98
37 Hungary4.91
38 Republic of Korea4.86
39 Russian Federation4.85
40 Bulgaria4.75
41 Lithuania4.53

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 0.701644 X +2.782
Correlation coefficient (r)0.253
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 21566.893164 X -75979.737
Correlation coefficient (r)0.211
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 3.141328 X +61.461
Correlation coefficient (r)0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.505691 X -0.991
Correlation coefficient (r)0.348
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.121

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -9.746076 X +61.821
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.528
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.279