Germany vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Germany converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 15.5 points of conversion residual (Germany +1.9 vs United States -13.6).

MetricGermanyUnited States
Health 84.5 73.3
Time & work–life 95.1 65.0
Economic security 67.8 46.4
Safety 85.4 73.4
Social connection 67.9 59.1
Environment 75.8 85.3
Composite (W) 78.8 65.9
Conversion residual 1.9 -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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