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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:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary372.4%
2 Israel369.8%
3 Slovakia363.7%
4 Sweden358.9%
5 Croatia356.2%
6 Denmark355.6%
7 Switzerland354.4%
8 Austria351.4%
9 Iceland345.9%
10 United States341.8%
11 Turkiye339.6%
12 Finland 339.1%
13 Republic of Korea339.0%
14 Norway338.2%
15 Taiwan329.6%
16 United Kingdom327.9%
17 France324.9%
18 Spain320.8%
19 South Africa320.6%
20 Slovenia317.7%
21 Italy315.4%
22 Germany312.4%
23 Czech Republic307.9%
24 Philippines302.7%
25 Thailand291.6%
26 Chile284.3%
27 Lithuania278.3%
28 Suriname271.7%
29 Russian Federation263.8%
30 Japan233.9%
31 Georgia232.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.124511 X +2.895
Correlation coefficient (r)0.510
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.260

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 32818.720664 X -69169.400
Correlation coefficient (r)0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 3.967918 X +66.106
Correlation coefficient (r)0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.034110 X +1.784
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.031
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.818154 X +22.915
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024