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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States36.7%
2 United Kingdom32.2%
3 Australia29.7%
4 Canada25.4%
5 Sweden24.4%
6 Japan 14.3%
7 France14.1%
8 Germany13.5%
9 Italy12.4%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 2.455070 X +6.305
Correlation coefficient (r)0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 93824.585699 X +30261.063
Correlation coefficient (r)0.774
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.599

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -12.486038 X +84.534
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.595209 X +1.397
Correlation coefficient (r)0.305
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.093

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5.170685 X +11.180
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022