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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 States38.9%
2 Australia32.2%
3 United Kingdom30.5%
4 Sweden26.5%
5 Japan 20.4%
6 Germany19.5%
7 Republic of Korea14.6%
8 France11.6%

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 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 3.147839 X +6.006
Correlation coefficient (r)0.563
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.317

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 105012.257643 X +25730.899
Correlation coefficient (r)0.813
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.661

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -14.055676 X +85.275
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.590
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.348

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.994408 X +1.256
Correlation coefficient (r)0.311
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -25.018164 X +21.223
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.390
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.152