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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 States43.0%
3 United Kingdom30.8%
5 Germany19.4%
6 Japan16.6%
8 France 11.8%
9 Italy7.7%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.185076 X +6.276
Correlation coefficient (r)0.556
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.309

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 109686.894711 X +26627.641
Correlation coefficient (r)0.854
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.729

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -13.841065 X +84.533
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.789
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.623

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.735950 X +1.340
Correlation coefficient (r)0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 16.532103 X +5.751
Correlation coefficient (r)0.591
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.349