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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 Denmark 5.27
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 = 1.689568 X -1.906
Correlation coefficient (r)0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 54250.360499 X -233194.144
Correlation coefficient (r)0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.325500 X +68.930
Correlation coefficient (r)0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.284775 X +0.112
Correlation coefficient (r)0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.295604 X +29.970
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020