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Question: If you were to consider your life in general, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
Choices: "Completely happy" "Very happy" "Fairly happy" "Neither happy nor unhappy" "Fairly unhappy" "Very unhappy" "Completely unhappy"
Average score (as "Completely happy"=7 "Very happy"=6 "Fairly happy"=5 "Neither happy nor unhappy"=4 "Fairly unhappy"=3 "Very unhappy"=2 "Completely unhappy"=1)
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela5.81
2 Argentina5.69
3 Philippines5.66
4 Mexico5.64
5 Iceland5.59
6 Switzerland5.58
7 United States5.50
8 Croatia5.48
9 Chile5.47
10 Canada5.46
11 Australia5.43
12 Poland5.42
13 Portugal5.39
13 United Kingdom5.39
15 Israel5.37
16 Ireland5.35
17 Netherlands5.32
18 Austria5.31
18 Finland 5.31
20 Denmark5.27
20 Spain5.27
22 Germany5.26
22 Norway5.26
24 Sweden5.25
25 Japan5.23
26 Belgium5.21
27 France5.20
28 Taiwan5.18
29 India5.15
29 Slovenia5.15
31 Czech Republic5.12
32 Slovakia5.10
33 China5.09
33 South Africa5.09
35 Turkiye4.99
36 Latvia4.98
37 Hungary4.91
38 Republic of Korea4.86
39 Russian Federation4.85
40 Bulgaria4.75
41 Lithuania4.53

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 0.776744 X +2.349
Correlation coefficient (r)0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 19925.171030 X -68105.968
Correlation coefficient (r)0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 3.122095 X +62.230
Correlation coefficient (r)0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.443060 X -0.656
Correlation coefficient (r)0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -13.490805 X +84.037
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.592
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.350