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Question: If you were to consider your life in general, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
Choices: "Completely happy" "Very happy" "Fairly happy" "Neither happy nor unhappy" "Fairly unhappy" "Very unhappy" "Completely unhappy"
Average score (as "Completely happy"=7 "Very happy"=6 "Fairly happy"=5 "Neither happy nor unhappy"=4 "Fairly unhappy"=3 "Very unhappy"=2 "Completely unhappy"=1)
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico5.64
2 Iceland5.59
3 Switzerland5.58
4 United States5.50
5 Chile5.47
6 Canada5.46
7 Australia5.43
8 Poland5.42
9 Portugal5.39
9 United Kingdom5.39
11 Israel5.37
12 Ireland5.35
13 Netherlands5.32
14 Austria5.31
14 Finland5.31
16 Denmark5.27
16 Spain5.27
18 Germany5.26
18 Norway5.26
20 Sweden5.25
21 Japan 5.23
22 Belgium5.21
23 France5.20
24 Slovenia5.15
25 Czech Republic5.12
26 Slovakia5.10
27 Turkiye4.99
28 Latvia4.98
29 Hungary4.91
30 Republic of Korea4.86
31 Lithuania4.53

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 7 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.937429 X +1.794
Correlation coefficient (r)0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 44310.611335 X -187430.385
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 4.345914 X +57.132
Correlation coefficient (r)0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.351849 X -0.245
Correlation coefficient (r)0.243
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -8.882402 X +57.206
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.511
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.261