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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland5.50
2 United States5.45
3 Poland5.42
4 Australia5.34
5 Israel5.33
5 Netherlands5.33
7 Denmark5.27
8 United Kingdom5.26
9 Japan 5.23
10 Norway5.21
11 Germany5.18
11 Slovenia5.18
11 Sweden5.18
14 Finland5.14
15 Czech Republic5.12
16 Slovakia5.10
17 Belgium5.08
18 Spain5.06
19 France5.01
20 Chile4.99
21 Republic of Korea4.82
22 Portugal4.80
23 Italy4.69
24 Turkiye4.67
25 Lithuania4.55

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.689568 X -1.906
Correlation coefficient (r)0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 54250.360499 X -233194.144
Correlation coefficient (r)0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.325500 X +68.930
Correlation coefficient (r)0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.284775 X +0.112
Correlation coefficient (r)0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.295604 X +29.970
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.141
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020