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Question: Would you say that you earn...? If you are not working now, please tell about your last job.
Choices: "Much less than I deserve" "Less than I deserve" "What I deserve" "More than I deserve" "Much more than I deserve" "Never worked"
Data: % of "Much less than I deserve" "Less than I deserve" among those who have ever worked
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ukraine81.2%
2 Hungary75.8%
3 Argentina73.7%
4 Latvia72.6%
5 Turkiye72.3%
6 Russian Federation71.6%
7 Slovakia71.4%
8 Chile70.4%
9 Bulgaria69.0%
9 Venezuela69.0%
11 Poland68.0%
12 Croatia67.8%
13 Sweden66.5%
14 Portugal65.6%
15 Slovenia64.2%
16 Lithuania63.2%
17 Italy61.1%
18 Finland60.8%
19 Spain60.7%
20 Czech Republic60.6%
21 South Africa60.5%
22 Japan 60.1%
23 China59.8%
24 France58.7%
25 Estonia58.5%
26 Israel54.3%
27 United Kingdom53.6%
28 Norway51.9%
29 Australia51.2%
29 United States51.2%
31 New Zealand50.1%
32 Germany49.9%
33 Republic of Korea49.7%
34 Philippines48.5%
35 Cyprus48.1%
36 Denmark46.3%
37 Iceland46.1%
38 Austria43.8%
39 Belgium40.1%
40 Taiwan38.8%
41 Switzerland36.9%

Note
Those who answer "Never worked"/ Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: unweighted sum of Flanders and Wallony. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -3.490375 X +8.514
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.571
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.326

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -145941.077432 X +121794.706
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.656
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.430

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -26.040840 X +93.756
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.530
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.281

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.307136 X +1.814
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 4.745639 X +7.676
Correlation coefficient (r)0.096
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009