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Question: If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole?
Choices: "Very happy" "Fairly happy" "Not very happy" "Not at all happy"
Data: % of "Very happy"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States45.9%
2 New Zealand34.3%
3 United Kingdom33.6%
4 Israel32.7%
5 Iceland29.2%
6 Switzerland28.5%
7 Austria25.6%
7 Chile25.6%
9 Sweden23.8%
10 Spain23.1%
11 Finland22.1%
12 Norway22.0%
13 Germany21.1%
14 Republic of Korea18.2%
15 Czech Republic17.9%
16 Slovakia17.8%
17 Japan 17.2%
18 Denmark16.9%
19 Slovenia16.2%
20 Turkiye15.6%
21 France15.2%
22 Italy14.4%
23 Hungary13.1%
24 Lithuania5.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.503062 X +6.008
Correlation coefficient (r)0.433
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 130419.490039 X +16027.950
Correlation coefficient (r)0.508
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.258

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 7.346988 X +79.181
Correlation coefficient (r)0.241
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.043330 X +1.354
Correlation coefficient (r)0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -19.142776 X +17.456
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.281
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.079