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Question: Thinking of your household's total income, including all the sources of income of all the members who contribute to it, how difficult or easy is it currently for your household to make ends meet?
Choices: "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult" "Neither easy nor difficult" "Fairly easy" "Very easy"
Data: % of "Very difficult" "Fairly difficult"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 51.0%
2 Chile50.2%
3 Italy37.9%
4 Israel33.9%
5 Lithuania32.3%
6 United Kingdom28.2%
7 United States25.5%
8 Slovenia22.6%
9 Australia22.3%
10 New Zealand21.4%
11 Czech Republic19.8%
12 Austria19.0%
13 Germany18.8%
14 Switzerland18.6%
15 France17.1%
16 Finland16.3%
17 Sweden13.5%
18 Iceland13.4%
19 Norway13.1%
20 Denmark8.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.388514 X +7.842
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.807
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.651

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -104849.182377 X +76947.170
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.600
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.360

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.422157 X +81.684
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.004327 X +1.623
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.002
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -4.123214 X +14.071
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.105
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011