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Question: During the past 4 weeks how often have you felt difficulties were piling up so high that you could not overcome them?
Choices: "Never" "Rarely" "Sometimes" "Often" "Very often"
Data: % of "Sometimes" "Often" "Very often"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 South Africa41.1%
2 Suriname34.6%
3 Slovakia34.0%
4 India31.9%
5 Czech Republic30.7%
6 Hungary30.4%
6 Philippines30.4%
8 Lithuania29.9%
9 Iceland29.3%
10 Russian Federation29.2%
11 Israel29.1%
12 United Kingdom28.8%
13 Mexico28.1%
14 Australia27.7%
15 China27.2%
15 Taiwan27.2%
17 Thailand26.4%
18 Croatia25.8%
19 United States24.4%
20 Spain24.0%
21 Switzerland22.9%
22 Japan 22.6%
23 Germany22.5%
24 New Zealand22.1%
25 Denmark20.6%
26 Austria19.2%
27 Sweden18.6%
28 Finland16.6%
29 France16.3%
30 Slovenia16.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -6.768905 X +8.306
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.515
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.265

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -211258.333042 X +91299.521
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.503
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.253

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -72.532067 X +96.753
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.731
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.534

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 3.031940 X +0.932
Correlation coefficient (r)0.425
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 28.623053 X +3.887
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095