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Question: Thinking of your household's total income, including all the sources of income of all the members who contribute to it, how difficult or easy wiii it be for your household to make ends meet during the next 12 months?
Choices: "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly easy" "Very easy"
Data: % of "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 56.8%
2 Italy39.9%
3 United Kingdom30.1%
4 United States27.5%
5 Australia25.9%
6 Germany24.1%
7 France21.3%
8 Sweden14.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -2.930067 X +7.714
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.903
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.815

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -54170.206502 X +67530.602
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.595
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.354

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 6.436391 X +79.797
Correlation coefficient (r)0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -1.088323 X +1.873
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.771
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.594

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -3.085503 X +13.337
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014