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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 States45.9%
2 United Kingdom33.6%
4 Germany21.1%
6 Japan17.2%
7 France 15.2%
8 Italy14.4%

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 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.297052 X +6.212
Correlation coefficient (r)0.584
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.341

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 117449.938714 X +21411.632
Correlation coefficient (r)0.877
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.769

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -14.920161 X +85.215
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.817
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.667

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.767248 X +1.310
Correlation coefficient (r)0.437
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.191

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 14.916215 X +5.649
Correlation coefficient (r)0.512
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.262