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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:
31 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland5.50
2 United States5.45
3 Poland5.42
4 Australia5.34
5 Israel5.33
5 Netherlands5.33
7 Philippines5.32
8 Denmark5.27
9 United Kingdom5.26
10 Japan5.23
11 Norway5.21
12 Germany5.18
12 Slovenia5.18
12 Sweden5.18
15 Finland5.14
16 Taiwan 5.13
17 Czech Republic5.12
18 Slovakia5.10
19 Belgium5.08
20 South Africa5.06
20 Spain5.06
22 Croatia5.05
23 France5.01
24 Chile4.99
25 Republic of Korea4.82
26 Portugal4.80
27 Bulgaria4.75
28 Italy4.69
29 Turkiye4.67
30 Russian Federation4.60
31 Lithuania4.55

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 207 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 1.814836 X -2.690
Correlation coefficient (r)0.606
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.367

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 52241.984778 X -227436.227
Correlation coefficient (r)0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 4.701468 X +55.374
Correlation coefficient (r)0.268
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.072

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.337867 X -0.099
Correlation coefficient (r)0.222
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.551177 X +46.830
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.262
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.069