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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%
2 Australia32.7%
3 United Kingdom30.8%
4 Sweden28.2%
5 Germany19.4%
6 Japan 16.6%
7 Republic of Korea16.2%
8 France11.8%
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 data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.190380 X +6.125
Correlation coefficient (r)0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 117396.974584 X +21329.072
Correlation coefficient (r)0.886
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.785

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -13.683493 X +85.071
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.643
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.413

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.180437 X +1.214
Correlation coefficient (r)0.429
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.184

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 9.379492 X +9.033
Correlation coefficient (r)0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048