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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States36.7%
2 United Kingdom32.2%
3 Australia29.7%
4 Canada25.4%
5 Sweden24.4%
6 Japan14.3%
7 France 14.1%
8 Germany13.5%
9 Italy12.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.180958 X +6.230
Correlation coefficient (r)0.533
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.284

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 122209.680317 X +23240.998
Correlation coefficient (r)0.805
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.648

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -14.773269 X +85.161
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.746086 X +1.385
Correlation coefficient (r)0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 15.532076 X +6.484
Correlation coefficient (r)0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212