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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 Philippines72.2%
2 Venezuela62.4%
3 Suriname54.7%
4 South Africa52.2%
5 Russian Federation51.6%
6 Japan 51.0%
7 Chile50.2%
8 Bulgaria49.4%
9 Italy37.9%
10 Israel33.9%
11 Lithuania32.3%
12 Thailand29.9%
13 United Kingdom28.2%
14 Croatia28.1%
15 Taiwan25.5%
15 United States25.5%
17 Slovenia22.6%
18 Australia22.3%
19 New Zealand21.4%
20 Czech Republic19.8%
21 Austria19.0%
22 Germany18.8%
23 Switzerland18.6%
24 France17.1%
25 Finland16.3%
26 Sweden13.5%
27 Iceland13.4%
28 Norway13.1%
29 Denmark8.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -3.117573 X +7.579
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.796
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.634

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -120878.096248 X +77598.889
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.746
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.557

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -24.194061 X +85.967
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.723
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.523

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 1.004960 X +1.425
Correlation coefficient (r)0.408
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 1.762090 X +10.516
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003