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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:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States41.1%
2 Canada34.3%
3 United Kingdom32.5%
4 France27.8%
5 Australia26.3%
6 Japan 22.9%
7 Germany16.0%
8 Italy15.7%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2001

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 1.620383 X +6.353
Correlation coefficient (r)0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 83122.915281 X +27807.346
Correlation coefficient (r)0.643
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.413

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14.013043 X +85.432
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.917595 X +1.267
Correlation coefficient (r)0.438
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.192

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 14.194759 X +8.207
Correlation coefficient (r)0.381
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.145