Spain vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Spain converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 15.3 points of conversion residual (Spain +1.6 vs United States -13.6).

MetricSpainUnited States
Health 91.2 73.3
Time & work–life 80.3 65.0
Economic security 61.2 46.4
Safety 88.9 73.4
Social connection 63.1 59.1
Environment 78.5 85.3
Composite (W) 76.3 65.9
Conversion residual 1.6 -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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