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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States38.9%
2 Australia32.2%
3 United Kingdom30.5%
4 Sweden26.5%
5 Japan20.4%
6 Germany19.5%
7 Republic of Korea14.6%
8 France 11.6%

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

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 2.397947 X +6.083
Correlation coefficient (r)0.508
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.258

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 134496.232499 X +17374.040
Correlation coefficient (r)0.832
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.692

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -16.465162 X +85.822
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.598
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.358

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.234785 X +1.214
Correlation coefficient (r)0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -6.896567 X +13.715
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021