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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:
47 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Nigeria51.0%
2 United States45.9%
3 Malawi43.0%
4 Ghana41.9%
5 Viet Nam41.0%
6 Sri Lanka40.2%
7 Malaysia34.9%
8 Mongolia34.6%
9 New Zealand34.3%
10 Singapore33.9%
11 Philippines33.6%
11 United Kingdom33.6%
13 Jordan33.0%
14 Israel32.7%
15 Kenya31.8%
16 Iceland29.2%
17 Switzerland28.5%
18 Croatia27.9%
19 Algeria27.6%
20 Suriname26.9%
21 Austria25.6%
21 Chile25.6%
23 Sweden23.8%
24 Indonesia23.6%
25 Spain23.1%
26 Taiwan22.3%
27 Finland22.1%
28 Norway22.0%
29 Germany21.1%
30 Thailand20.5%
31 South Africa20.4%
32 Georgia20.0%
33 Nepal19.1%
34 Republic of Korea18.2%
35 Czech Republic17.9%
36 Slovakia17.8%
37 Japan 17.2%
38 Denmark16.9%
39 Slovenia16.2%
40 Turkiye15.6%
41 France15.2%
42 Italy14.4%
43 Bulgaria13.7%
43 Russian Federation13.7%
45 Hungary13.1%
46 Cambodia6.4%
47 Lithuania5.7%

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 191 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -2.406362 X +6.647
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.240
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data47
Regression equation
Y = -7431.056975 X +30283.116
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.028
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -21.166017 X +81.045
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.299
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = 4.538767 X +0.843
Correlation coefficient (r)0.571
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.326

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -6.678268 X +11.903
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015