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Question: During the past 4 weeks how often have you felt unhappy and depressed?
Choices: "Never" "Rarely" "Sometimes" "Often" "Very often"
Data: % of "Sometimes" "Often" "Very often"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia42.8%
2 United Kingdom41.3%
3 Israel36.9%
4 Lithuania35.2%
5 Sweden34.0%
6 Finland33.4%
7 France33.3%
8 Hungary32.3%
9 United States29.6%
10 Czech Republic29.2%
11 New Zealand28.6%
12 Japan28.4%
13 Iceland28.1%
14 Spain26.9%
15 Slovakia25.9%
16 Denmark22.4%
17 Switzerland21.7%
18 Germany 21.1%
19 Mexico19.7%
20 Austria19.3%
21 Slovenia14.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.782678 X +6.706
Correlation coefficient (r)0.108
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 23030.542789 X +39648.726
Correlation coefficient (r)0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 4.305581 X +79.279
Correlation coefficient (r)0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.768821 X +1.423
Correlation coefficient (r)0.166
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -2.745548 X +13.919
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.043
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002