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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico55.3%
2 Ireland46.9%
3 United States43.0%
4 Belgium39.2%
5 New Zealand35.8%
6 Switzerland34.8%
7 Australia32.7%
8 Netherlands32.6%
9 United Kingdom30.8%
10 Sweden28.2%
11 Chile27.6%
12 Poland26.8%
13 Norway26.5%
14 Israel26.0%
15 Austria 24.6%
16 Denmark24.1%
17 Spain20.8%
18 Germany19.4%
19 Finland18.2%
20 Japan16.6%
20 Portugal16.6%
22 Slovenia16.4%
23 Republic of Korea16.2%
24 Turkiye12.8%
25 France11.8%
26 Czech Republic10.4%
27 Slovakia9.8%
28 Latvia9.3%
29 Hungary7.9%
30 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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.969285 X +6.209
Correlation coefficient (r)0.420
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 98475.684506 X +20886.940
Correlation coefficient (r)0.465
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.216

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.175937 X +80.209
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.502203 X +1.481
Correlation coefficient (r)0.178
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.833019 X +10.361
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003