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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 Mexico5.64
2 Iceland5.59
3 Switzerland5.58
4 United States5.50
5 Chile5.47
6 Canada5.46
7 Australia5.43
8 Poland5.42
9 Portugal5.39
9 United Kingdom5.39
11 Israel5.37
12 Ireland5.35
13 Netherlands5.32
14 Austria5.31
14 Finland5.31
16 Denmark5.27
16 Spain5.27
18 Germany5.26
18 Norway5.26
20 Sweden5.25
21 Japan 5.23
22 Belgium5.21
23 France5.20
24 Slovenia5.15
25 Czech Republic5.12
26 Slovakia5.10
27 Turkiye4.99
28 Latvia4.98
29 Hungary4.91
30 Republic of Korea4.86
31 Lithuania4.53

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany.

No data for 7 countries.

Source
ISSP 2012

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 1.166549 X +0.609
Correlation coefficient (r)0.409
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.167

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 41483.718113 X -173222.745
Correlation coefficient (r)0.400
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.160

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 4.272035 X +57.931
Correlation coefficient (r)0.355
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.126

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.295236 X +0.039
Correlation coefficient (r)0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -13.709371 X +85.393
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.583
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.340