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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland5.50
2 United States5.45
3 Poland5.42
4 Australia5.34
5 Israel5.33
5 Netherlands5.33
7 Denmark5.27
8 United Kingdom5.26
9 Japan5.23
10 Norway5.21
11 Germany5.18
11 Slovenia5.18
11 Sweden 5.18
14 Finland5.14
15 Czech Republic5.12
16 Slovakia5.10
17 Belgium5.08
18 Spain5.06
19 France5.01
20 Chile4.99
21 Republic of Korea4.82
22 Portugal4.80
23 Italy4.69
24 Turkiye4.67
25 Lithuania4.55

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.305094 X +0.033
Correlation coefficient (r)0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 56834.960627 X -246199.713
Correlation coefficient (r)0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.782730 X +66.394
Correlation coefficient (r)0.224
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.460069 X -0.769
Correlation coefficient (r)0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.206104 X +16.367
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.068
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005