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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 Switzerland 5.50
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 Sweden5.18
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