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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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland48.1%
2 Mexico47.0%
3 Dominican Republic46.7%
4 United States38.9%
5 Switzerland37.7%
6 New Zealand35.9%
7 Australia32.2%
8 Chile32.0%
9 Philippines31.2%
10 Norway31.1%
10 South Africa31.1%
12 United Kingdom30.5%
13 Belgium30.0%
13 Uruguay30.0%
15 Argentina 29.2%
16 Israel27.8%
17 Sweden26.5%
18 Cyprus24.9%
18 Poland24.9%
20 Austria24.6%
21 Czech Republic23.5%
22 Japan20.4%
23 Germany19.5%
24 Taiwan19.4%
25 Slovenia16.3%
26 Finland16.0%
27 Croatia15.5%
28 Republic of Korea14.6%
29 Bulgaria12.6%
30 France11.6%
31 Slovakia9.8%
32 Latvia9.5%
33 Hungary7.9%
34 Russian Federation7.7%

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

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.306712 X +6.198
Correlation coefficient (r)0.221
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 73001.280616 X +18585.292
Correlation coefficient (r)0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.349384 X +78.174
Correlation coefficient (r)0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.327361 X +1.347
Correlation coefficient (r)0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -25.737810 X +20.016
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.470
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.221