Canada vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Canada converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 14.8 points of conversion residual (Canada +1.1 vs United States -13.6).

MetricCanadaUnited States
Health 84.8 73.3
Time & work–life 76.4 65.0
Economic security 66.2 46.4
Safety 83.7 73.4
Social connection 76.7 59.1
Environment 90.1 85.3
Composite (W) 79.3 65.9
Conversion residual 1.1 -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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