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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 Philippines72.2%
2 Venezuela62.4%
3 Suriname54.7%
4 South Africa52.2%
5 Russian Federation51.6%
6 Japan51.0%
7 Chile50.2%
8 Bulgaria49.4%
9 Italy37.9%
10 Israel33.9%
11 Lithuania32.3%
12 Thailand29.9%
13 United Kingdom28.2%
14 Croatia28.1%
15 Taiwan25.5%
15 United States25.5%
17 Slovenia22.6%
18 Australia22.3%
19 New Zealand21.4%
20 Czech Republic19.8%
21 Austria19.0%
22 Germany18.8%
23 Switzerland18.6%
24 France17.1%
25 Finland 16.3%
26 Sweden13.5%
27 Iceland13.4%
28 Norway13.1%
29 Denmark8.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -4.020278 X +7.865
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.844
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.712

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -118348.287539 X +76104.182
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -20.209584 X +85.178
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.698
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.487

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 1.048643 X +1.381
Correlation coefficient (r)0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -2.638029 X +14.215
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005