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Question: Thinking of your household's total income, including all the sources of income of all the members who contribute to it, how difficult or easy is it currently for your household to make ends meet?
Choices: "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly easy" "Very easy"
Data: % of "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines73.5%
2 India73.0%
3 Thailand68.4%
4 Suriname59.5%
5 South Africa51.6%
6 Japan50.3%
7 Hungary49.9%
8 Slovakia46.0%
9 Russian Federation45.7%
10 Mexico42.9%
11 Croatia38.9%
12 Lithuania37.8%
13 Spain33.9%
14 France33.1%
15 China32.3%
16 Israel31.3%
17 Australia27.1%
18 United States25.9%
19 Czech Republic25.6%
20 Slovenia24.5%
21 United Kingdom22.0%
22 Taiwan21.1%
23 New Zealand21.0%
24 Austria19.4%
25 Iceland18.1%
26 Finland 17.4%
27 Germany17.1%
28 Switzerland16.6%
29 Sweden11.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -4.096779 X +7.941
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.819
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.671

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -107831.525767 X +73129.119
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.790
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.624

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -19.739308 X +85.373
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.700
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.490

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.925506 X +1.395
Correlation coefficient (r)0.415
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.172

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.357164 X +13.699
Correlation coefficient (r)0.010
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000