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Question: Thinking of your household's total income, including all the sources of income of all the members who contribute to it, how difficult or easy is it currently for your household to make ends meet?
Choices: "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly easy" "Very easy"
Data: % of "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines73.5%
2 India73.0%
3 Thailand68.4%
4 Suriname59.5%
5 South Africa51.6%
6 Japan 50.3%
7 Hungary49.9%
8 Slovakia46.0%
9 Russian Federation45.7%
10 Mexico42.9%
11 Croatia38.9%
12 Lithuania37.8%
13 Spain33.9%
14 France33.1%
15 China32.3%
16 Israel31.3%
17 Australia27.1%
18 United States25.9%
19 Czech Republic25.6%
20 Slovenia24.5%
21 United Kingdom22.0%
22 Taiwan21.1%
23 New Zealand21.0%
24 Austria19.4%
25 Iceland18.1%
26 Finland17.4%
27 Germany17.1%
28 Switzerland16.6%
29 Sweden11.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -3.394191 X +7.695
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.794
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.630

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -107076.871003 X +72951.759
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.778
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.605

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -23.498494 X +86.117
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.696
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.484

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.792833 X +1.440
Correlation coefficient (r)0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 4.292885 X +9.971
Correlation coefficient (r)0.137
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019