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Question: In general, would you say your health is...?
Choices: "Excellent" "Very good" "Good" "Fair" "Poor"
Average score (as "Excellent"=5 "Very good"=4 "Good"=3 "Fair"=2 "Poor"=1)
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus3.98
2 Ireland3.82
3 Dominican Republic3.59
4 Poland3.53
5 New Zealand3.51
6 Austria3.50
7 Israel3.49
7 Switzerland3.49
9 Sweden3.48
10 South Africa3.45
11 Republic of Korea3.41
12 United States3.40
13 Argentina3.34
14 Australia3.33
15 Mexico3.30
16 Norway3.27
17 United Kingdom3.26
17 Uruguay3.26
19 Belgium3.14
20 France3.13
21 Slovakia3.11
22 Bulgaria3.07
22 Czech Republic3.07
24 Japan3.03
25 Croatia3.00
25 Philippines3.00
27 Germany2.99
28 Slovenia2.97
29 Finland 2.95
30 Chile2.94
31 Taiwan2.86
32 Hungary2.82
33 Latvia2.76
34 Russian Federation2.16

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 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.506992 X +4.899
Correlation coefficient (r)0.260
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.068

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 27996.052834 X -52940.563
Correlation coefficient (r)0.371
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.732348 X +66.725
Correlation coefficient (r)0.284
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.128538 X +1.272
Correlation coefficient (r)0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -7.241821 X +36.807
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.396
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.157