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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland48.1%
2 Mexico47.0%
3 United States38.9%
4 Switzerland37.7%
5 New Zealand35.9%
6 Australia32.2%
7 Chile32.0%
8 Norway31.1%
9 United Kingdom30.5%
10 Belgium30.0%
11 Israel27.8%
12 Sweden26.5%
13 Poland24.9%
14 Austria 24.6%
15 Czech Republic23.5%
16 Japan20.4%
17 Germany19.5%
18 Slovenia16.3%
19 Finland16.0%
20 Republic of Korea14.6%
21 France11.6%
22 Slovakia9.8%
23 Latvia9.5%
24 Hungary7.9%

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 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.516290 X +6.360
Correlation coefficient (r)0.384
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 119292.801047 X +16013.644
Correlation coefficient (r)0.503
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.253

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.763131 X +79.249
Correlation coefficient (r)0.080
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.629005 X +1.465
Correlation coefficient (r)0.198
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -13.009705 X +14.232
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175