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Question: Overall, are you satisfied or dissatisfied with the way things are going in our country today?
Choices: "Satisfied" "Dissatisfied"
Data: % of "Satisfied"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands73.6%
2 Poland67.5%
3 Sweden66.9%
4 Germany64.0%
5 India63.3%
6 Indonesia61.4%
7 Canada59.4%
7 Czech Republic59.4%
9 Philippines59.0%
10 Lithuania58.5%
11 Slovakia55.7%
12 Japan 52.7%
13 Australia50.5%
14 Israel49.8%
15 Hungary47.1%
16 Russian Federation46.7%
17 Turkiye40.3%
18 France38.9%
19 Republic of Korea34.8%
20 United States34.0%
21 Spain32.1%
22 Kenya29.8%
23 Italy27.3%
24 South Africa26.7%
25 Ukraine24.8%
26 Mexico24.7%
27 Brazil23.7%
28 Bulgaria21.9%
29 United Kingdom20.8%
30 Nigeria19.1%
31 Argentina16.3%
32 Greece15.7%
33 Lebanon15.4%
34 Tunisia8.4%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 2.536333 X +4.955
Correlation coefficient (r)0.456
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.208

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 41561.705836 X +8592.152
Correlation coefficient (r)0.368
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.135

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 10.025986 X +71.139
Correlation coefficient (r)0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -0.695996 X +2.146
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.165
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 5.566762 X +7.361
Correlation coefficient (r)0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032