Satisfaction with Life Index
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The Satisfaction with Life Index was created in 2007 by Adrian G. White, an analytic social psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a metastudy.[1] It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different nations.
In this calculation, subjective well-being correlates most strongly with health (.7), wealth (.6), and access to basic education (.6).[2][3]
This is an example of directly measuring happiness—asking people how happy they are—as an alternative to traditional measures of policy success such as GDP or GNP. Some studies suggest that happiness can be measured effectively.[4][5]
This Index, however, is not solely based on directly asking "how people feel", but also on its social and economic development.[citation needed]
The Happy Planet Index was used along with data from UNESCO on access to schooling, from the WHO on life expectancy, and from the CIA on GDP per capita to perform a new analysis to come to a unique and novel set of results.[6] Specifically, the extent of correlation between measures of poverty, health and education, and the variable of happiness.[citation needed]
Satisfaction Index
The subjective well-being index represents the overall satisfaction level as one number.
Analysed data to create the index comes from UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latinbarometer, the Afrobarometer, and the UNHDR. These sources are analysed to create a global projection of subjective well-being: the first world map of happiness. Whilst collecting data on subjective well-being is not an exact science, the measures used are very reliable in predicting health and welfare outcomes.[6]
International rankings 2007-2017
Rank | Country | SWL | Rank | Country | SWL |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 283.33 | 90 | ![]() | 206.67 |
2 | ![]() | 273.33 | 91 | ![]() | 206.67 |
3 | ![]() | 260 | 92 | ![]() | 203.33 |
4 | ![]() | 260 | 93 | ![]() | 203.33 |
5 | ![]() | 266.67 | 94 | ![]() | 203.33 |
6 | ![]() | 256.67 | 95 | ![]() | 203.33 |
7 | ![]() | 246.67 | 96 | ![]() | 200 |
8 | ![]() | 253.33 | 97 | ![]() | 196.67 |
9 | ![]() | 253.33 | 98 | ![]() | 196.67 |
10 | ![]() | 253.33 | 99 | ![]() | 196.67 |
11 | ![]() | 253.33 | 100 | ![]() | 193.33 |
12 | ![]() | 253.33 | 101 | ![]() | 193.33 |
13 | ![]() | 250 | 102 | ![]() | 193.33 |
14 | ![]() | 250 | 103 | ![]() | 193.33 |
15 | ![]() | 250 | 104 | ![]() | 190 |
16 | ![]() | 246.67 | 105 | ![]() | 190 |
17 | ![]() | 246.67 | 106 | ![]() | 190 |
18 | ![]() | 246.67 | 107 | ![]() | 190 |
19 | ![]() | 246.67 | 108 | ![]() | 190 |
20 | ![]() | 246.67 | 109 | ![]() | 190 |
21 | ![]() | 246.67 | 110 | ![]() | 186.67 |
22 | ![]() | 246.67 | 111 | ![]() | 186.67 |
23 | ![]() | 246.67 | 112 | ![]() | 186.67 |
24 | ![]() | 246.67 | 113 | ![]() | 186.67 |
25 | ![]() | 246.67 | 114 | ![]() | 186.67 |
26 | ![]() | 243.33 | 115 | ![]() | 186.67 |
27 | ![]() | 243.33 | 116 | ![]() | 186.67 |
28 | ![]() | 243.33 | 117 | ![]() | 183.33 |
29 | ![]() | 243.33 | 118 | ![]() | 183.33 |
30 | ![]() | 243.33 | 119 | ![]() | 183.33 |
31 | ![]() | 243.33 | 120 | ![]() | 183.33 |
32 | ![]() | 243.33 | 121 | ![]() | 183.33 |
33 | ![]() | 240 | 122 | ![]() | 180 |
34 | ![]() | 240 | 123 | ![]() | 180 |
35 | ![]() | 240 | 124 | ![]() | 180 |
36 | ![]() | 240 | 125 | ![]() | 180 |
37 | ![]() | 240 | 126 | ![]() | 180 |
38 | ![]() | 240 | 127 | ![]() | 180 |
39 | ![]() | 240 | 128 | ![]() | 180 |
40 | ![]() | 240 | 129 | ![]() | 180 |
41 | ![]() | 236.67 | 130 | ![]() | 176.67 |
42 | ![]() | 233.33 | 131 | ![]() | 176.67 |
43 | ![]() | 233.33 | 132 | ![]() | 176.67 |
44 | ![]() | 233.33 | 133 | ![]() | 176.67 |
45 | ![]() | 233.33 | 134 | ![]() | 173.33 |
46 | ![]() | 233.33 | 135 | ![]() | 173.33 |
47 | ![]() | 233.33 | 136 | ![]() | 173.33 |
48 | ![]() | 230 | 137 | ![]() | 170 |
49 | ![]() | 230 | 138 | ![]() | 170 |
50 | ![]() | 230 | 139 | ![]() | 170 |
51 | ![]() | 230 | 140 | ![]() | 170 |
52 | ![]() | 230 | 141 | ![]() | 170 |
53 | ![]() | 230 | 142 | ![]() | 170 |
54 | ![]() | 230 | 143 | ![]() | 166.67 |
55 | ![]() | 230 | 144 | ![]() | 163.33 |
56 | ![]() | 226.67 | 145 | ![]() | 163.33 |
57 | ![]() | 223.33 | 146 | ![]() | 163.33 |
58 | ![]() | 223.33 | 147 | ![]() | 163.33 |
59 | ![]() | 223.33 | 148 | ![]() | 163.33 |
62 | ![]() | 240 | 151 | ![]() | 160 |
60 | ![]() | 223.33 | 149 | ![]() | 160 |
61 | ![]() | 220 | 150 | ![]() | 160 |
63 | ![]() | 220 | 152 | ![]() | 156.67 |
64 | ![]() | 220 | 153 | ![]() | 156.67 |
65 | ![]() | 220 | 154 | ![]() | 156.67 |
66 | ![]() | 220 | 155 | ![]() | 156.67 |
67 | ![]() | 220 | 156 | ![]() | 156.67 |
68 | ![]() | 220 | 157 | ![]() | 153.33 |
69 | ![]() | 220 | 158 | ![]() | 153.33 |
70 | ![]() | 220 | 159 | ![]() | 150 |
71 | ![]() | 216.67 | 160 | ![]() | 150 |
72 | ![]() | 216.67 | 161 | ![]() | 150 |
73 | ![]() | 216.67 | 162 | ![]() | 146.67 |
74 | ![]() | 216.67 | 163 | ![]() | 146.67 |
75 | ![]() | 216.67 | 164 | ![]() | 143.33 |
76 | ![]() | 216.67 | 165 | ![]() | 143.33 |
77 | ![]() | 213.33 | 166 | ![]() | 143.33 |
78 | ![]() | 213.33 | 167 | ![]() | 143.33 |
79 | ![]() | 213.33 | 168 | ![]() | 140 |
80 | ![]() | 213.33 | 169 | ![]() | 136.67 |
81 | ![]() | 210 | 170 | ![]() | 133.33 |
82 | ![]() | 210 | 171 | ![]() | 133.33 |
83 | ![]() | 210 | 172 | ![]() | 123.33 |
84 | ![]() | 210 | 173 | ![]() | 120 |
85 | ![]() | 210 | 174 | ![]() | 120 |
86 | ![]() | 210 | 175 | ![]() | 116.67 |
87 | ![]() | 210 | 176 | ![]() | 110 |
88 | ![]() | 206.67 | 177 | ![]() | 110 |
89 | ![]() | 206.67 | 178 | ![]() | 100 |
See also
- Social Progress Index
- Happy Planet Index
- Human Development Index
- Quality of life
- Gross National Happiness
References
- ^ White, Adrian (2007). "A global projection of subjective well-being: A challenge to positive psychology". Psychtalk. 56: 17–20.
- ^ University of Leicester (2006, 14 November). "Psychologist Produces The First-ever 'World Map Of Happiness'." ScienceDaily. Accessed 23 July 2011.
- ^ "Denmark 'happiest place on earth'". BBC News. 28 July 2006. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ^ Pink, Daniel H. (December 2004). "The True Measure of Success". Wired. Vol. 12, no. 12. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ^ Brittan, Samuel (22 November 2001) "Happiness is not enough Archived 29 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine" Templeton Lecture Inst. of Economic Affairs. Accessed 23 July 2011.
- ^ a b "University of Leicester produces the first-ever 'world map of happiness'" (Press release). University of Leicester. 27 July 2006. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
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