Australia vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Australia converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 16.6 points of conversion residual (Australia +3.0 vs United States -13.6).

MetricAustraliaUnited States
Health 88.7 73.3
Time & work–life 72.3 65.0
Economic security 62.5 46.4
Safety 76.6 73.4
Social connection 79.5 59.1
Environment 83.6 85.3
Composite (W) 76.7 65.9
Conversion residual 3.0 -13.6

Bold = higher score. Higher is better for every row (conversion residual: higher = delivers more wellbeing than its wealth predicts).

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