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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 India3.78
2 Israel3.70
3 New Zealand3.61
3 Switzerland3.61
5 Hungary3.57
6 Sweden3.53
7 Slovakia3.52
8 Austria3.51
9 South Africa3.48
10 United States3.43
11 Australia3.40
11 Denmark3.40
13 Iceland3.37
14 Mexico3.29
15 Croatia3.28
16 Taiwan3.26
17 Slovenia3.22
18 Czech Republic3.21
18 Spain3.21
20 United Kingdom3.20
21 Finland 3.17
22 France3.12
23 Germany3.11
24 Philippines3.03
25 China2.89
26 Suriname2.84
27 Lithuania2.80
28 Thailand2.79
29 Russian Federation2.68
30 Japan2.37

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.501244 X +4.918
Correlation coefficient (r)0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 25676.322875 X -47615.111
Correlation coefficient (r)0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.992439 X +75.117
Correlation coefficient (r)0.067
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.281909 X +0.814
Correlation coefficient (r)0.243
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.059

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -4.301085 X +27.680
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057