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Question: If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
Choices: "Very happy" "Fairly happy" "Not very happy" "Not at all happy"
Data: % of "Very happy"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Brazil55.3%
2 United States41.1%
3 Chile38.9%
4 New Zealand37.9%
5 Switzerland36.5%
6 Canada34.3%
7 United Kingdom32.5%
8 South Africa31.4%
9 Philippines30.0%
10 Austria28.5%
11 Denmark28.3%
12 France27.8%
13 Australia26.3%
14 Israel25.6%
15 Norway23.2%
16 Japan 22.9%
17 Finland16.9%
18 Cyprus16.7%
19 Germany16.0%
20 Italy15.7%
21 Slovenia13.0%
22 Poland12.9%
23 Spain12.3%
24 Czech Republic11.7%
25 Hungary7.6%
26 Latvia7.0%
27 Russian Federation1.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 211 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.773348 X +6.433
Correlation coefficient (r)0.174
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 45842.843069 X +29650.637
Correlation coefficient (r)0.222
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.619600 X +78.439
Correlation coefficient (r)0.037
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.714886 X +1.492
Correlation coefficient (r)0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -8.229460 X +12.180
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043