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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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States41.1%
2 Chile38.9%
3 New Zealand37.9%
4 Switzerland36.5%
5 Canada34.3%
6 United Kingdom32.5%
7 Austria28.5%
8 Denmark28.3%
9 France27.8%
10 Australia26.3%
11 Israel25.6%
12 Norway23.2%
13 Japan 22.9%
14 Finland16.9%
15 Germany16.0%
16 Italy15.7%
17 Slovenia13.0%
18 Poland12.9%
19 Spain12.3%
20 Czech Republic11.7%
21 Hungary7.6%
22 Latvia7.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 1.394292 X +6.452
Correlation coefficient (r)0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 114920.207687 X +19928.838
Correlation coefficient (r)0.509
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.259

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 10.836271 X +78.063
Correlation coefficient (r)0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.447961 X +1.502
Correlation coefficient (r)0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -2.563387 X +10.512
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008