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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:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico55.3%
2 Dominican Republic47.3%
3 Ireland46.9%
4 Venezuela46.8%
5 United States43.0%
6 Belgium39.2%
7 New Zealand35.8%
8 Switzerland34.8%
9 Australia32.7%
10 Netherlands32.6%
10 Tanzania32.6%
12 Philippines31.6%
13 United Kingdom30.8%
14 Uruguay30.1%
15 Sweden28.2%
16 Sri Lanka28.0%
17 South Africa27.7%
18 Chile27.6%
19 Poland26.8%
20 Norway26.5%
21 Israel26.0%
22 Austria24.6%
23 Cyprus24.1%
23 Denmark24.1%
25 Taiwan22.1%
26 Spain20.8%
27 Croatia20.5%
28 Germany19.4%
29 Finland18.2%
30 Japan 16.6%
30 Portugal16.6%
32 Slovenia16.4%
33 Republic of Korea16.2%
34 Kenya15.0%
35 Indonesia13.5%
36 Turkiye12.8%
37 France11.8%
38 Czech Republic10.4%
39 Slovakia9.8%
40 Latvia9.3%
41 Hungary7.9%
42 Italy7.7%
42 Russian Federation7.7%
44 Ukraine4.6%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = 1.371131 X +5.960
Correlation coefficient (r)0.188
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = 59053.868388 X +19661.046
Correlation coefficient (r)0.266
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 0.868045 X +77.075
Correlation coefficient (r)0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.158461 X +1.506
Correlation coefficient (r)0.217
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.047

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -9.549128 X +12.528
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051