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Period:
Area:
40 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile62.5%2010
2 Canada62.3%2010
3 Ireland58.1%2010
4 Indonesia56.6%2010
5 Brazil 56.5%2010
6 Luxembourg54.8%2010
7 China54.6%2010
8 India53.9%2010
9 Slovenia53.6%2010
10 New Zealand53.5%2010
11 Spain52.4%2010
12 Mexico52.0%2010
13 Switzerland51.8%2009
14 Denmark48.8%2010
15 Australia47.9%2010
16 South Africa47.8%2009
17 Netherlands47.6%2010
18 Norway47.4%2008
19 Belgium46.8%2010
20 Portugal43.2%2010
21 Finland41.8%2010
22 United Kingdom39.0%2010
23 Slovakia38.0%2010
24 Iceland37.2%2009
24 Sweden37.2%2010
26 Austria37.1%2010
27 Poland37.0%2010
28 Italy35.1%2010
29 Russian Federation32.8%2010
30 Germany32.7%2010
31 France32.3%2010
32 Czech Republic31.5%2010
33 Israel31.1%2008
34 United States30.1%2010
35 Estonia26.9%2009
36 Japan25.0%2010
37 Turkiye23.0%2010
38 Republic of Korea22.1%2010
39 Greece16.4%2010
40 Hungary14.4%2010

No data for 198 countries.

Source
OECD (2011) How's Life? Measuring Well-being

Original source
Gallup World Poll.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.664282 X +6.259
Correlation coefficient (r)0.097
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 39184.289060 X +25280.930
Correlation coefficient (r)0.168
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -2.719889 X +80.602
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.081
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.367992 X +1.476
Correlation coefficient (r)0.132
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -9.234282 X +16.172
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.209
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044