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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:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland3.48
2 Israel3.45
3 Denmark3.43
4 Sweden3.38
5 South Africa3.36
6 Republic of Korea3.35
7 United States3.32
8 Croatia3.30
9 Australia3.26
10 Czech Republic3.21
11 United Kingdom3.14
12 Spain3.10
13 Norway3.08
14 France3.06
15 Slovakia3.05
16 Finland 3.03
16 Netherlands3.03
18 Slovenia3.01
19 Belgium2.99
20 Germany2.97
20 Philippines2.97
22 Bulgaria2.92
23 Turkiye2.89
24 Japan2.88
25 China2.82
26 Chile2.81
26 Italy2.81
28 Poland2.76
29 Portugal2.67
30 Lithuania2.56
31 Taiwan2.54
32 Russian Federation2.37

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 206 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.234226 X +2.778
Correlation coefficient (r)0.453
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.205

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 42536.587541 X -91230.718
Correlation coefficient (r)0.504
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.254

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 4.223625 X +66.362
Correlation coefficient (r)0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.333095 X +0.608
Correlation coefficient (r)0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -0.925024 X +16.132
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002