Satisfaction with Life Index



The World Happiness Map was extracted from data from the Happy Planet Index. It is an attempt to show life satisfaction (subjective life satisfaction) in different nations. In this calculation, life satisfaction correlates most strongly with health (.7), wealth (.6), and access to basic education (.6).

This is an example of a recent trend to use direct measures of happiness, such as surveys asking people how happy they are, as an alternative to traditional measures of policy success to GDP or GNP. Some studies suggest that happiness can be measured effectively.