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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico5.58
2 Japan5.56
3 Austria5.54
3 Chile5.54
5 Switzerland5.52
5 United States5.52
7 New Zealand5.48
8 United Kingdom5.43
9 Brazil5.42
10 Philippines5.40
11 Australia5.39
12 Denmark5.35
12 Ireland5.35
14 Israel5.32
15 Cyprus5.29
15 Norway5.29
17 Netherlands 5.28
18 Finland5.26
18 France5.26
20 Spain5.24
20 Sweden5.24
22 Belgium5.20
23 Taiwan5.19
24 Slovenia5.18
25 Portugal5.15
26 Germany5.12
27 Czech Republic5.03
28 Hungary4.99
29 Poland4.97
30 Slovakia4.88
31 Latvia4.85
32 Russian Federation4.83
33 Bulgaria4.53

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.158179 X +0.602
Correlation coefficient (r)0.450
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 40858.165965 X -173325.733
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 7.124852 X +42.200
Correlation coefficient (r)0.497
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.247

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.215767 X +0.494
Correlation coefficient (r)0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -6.698137 X +47.307
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114