Switzerland vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Switzerland converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 10.4 points of conversion residual (Switzerland -3.2 vs United States -13.6).

MetricSwitzerlandUnited States
Health 90.9 73.3
Time & work–life 83.4 65.0
Economic security 72.0 46.4
Safety 94.7 73.4
Social connection 44.4 59.1
Environment 80.5 85.3
Composite (W) 75.5 65.9
Conversion residual -3.2 -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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