Belgium vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Belgium converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 15.9 points of conversion residual (Belgium +2.2 vs United States -13.6).

MetricBelgiumUnited States
Health 87.3 73.3
Time & work–life 81.8 65.0
Economic security 78.9 46.4
Safety 81.5 73.4
Social connection 78.9 59.1
Environment 72.2 85.3
Composite (W) 80.0 65.9
Conversion residual 2.2 -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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