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Question: In general, would you say your health is... ?
Choices: "Excellent" "Very good" "Good" "Fair" "Poor"
Data: % of "Excellent" "Very good" "Good"
Period:
Area:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary365.1%
2 Canada360.7%
3 Ireland350.3%
4 Iceland347.9%
5 Switzerland346.8%
6 Israel345.2%
7 Denmark343.5%
8 Austria343.0%
9 Sweden 341.5%
10 United States339.8%
11 Norway331.4%
12 Australia329.2%
13 United Kingdom324.1%
14 Mexico320.9%
15 Czech Republic320.7%
16 Republic of Korea319.7%
17 Spain318.5%
18 Belgium317.0%
19 France316.6%
20 Netherlands313.2%
21 Finland308.1%
22 Turkiye307.4%
23 Slovenia306.2%
24 Slovakia304.8%
25 Portugal303.9%
26 Germany302.3%
27 Chile289.3%
28 Lithuania288.2%
29 Poland275.7%
30 Latvia271.3%
31 Japan236.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 7 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.839731 X +4.048
Correlation coefficient (r)0.409
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.167

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 49701.476800 X -112807.295
Correlation coefficient (r)0.533
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.284

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 2.925264 X +70.669
Correlation coefficient (r)0.218
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.375034 X +0.410
Correlation coefficient (r)0.310
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.096

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -2.386014 X +18.078
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027