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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 wiii it be for your household to make ends meet during the next 12 months?
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 Suriname59.7%
2 Japan 56.8%
3 Philippines54.7%
4 Russian Federation54.3%
5 Venezuela54.1%
6 Bulgaria52.8%
7 South Africa46.2%
8 Chile44.3%
9 Italy39.9%
10 Lithuania39.4%
11 Israel38.8%
12 Thailand30.9%
13 United Kingdom30.1%
14 United States27.5%
15 Australia25.9%
15 Croatia25.9%
17 Germany24.1%
18 New Zealand24.0%
18 Slovenia24.0%
20 Taiwan23.6%
21 Czech Republic21.8%
22 France21.3%
23 Switzerland19.9%
24 Austria18.6%
25 Finland17.2%
26 Iceland15.5%
27 Sweden14.0%
28 Norway13.2%
29 Denmark8.3%

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 = -3.558685 X +7.729
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.792
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.627

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -130361.151193 X +81367.315
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.722
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.521

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -24.771461 X +86.323
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.662
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.438

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.875475 X +1.460
Correlation coefficient (r)0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 6.247393 X +9.057
Correlation coefficient (r)0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027