Estonia vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Estonia converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 20.4 points of conversion residual (Estonia +6.8 vs United States -13.6).

MetricEstoniaUnited States
Health 81.1 73.3
Time & work–life 82.3 65.0
Economic security 57.1 46.4
Safety 88.9 73.4
Social connection 62.2 59.1
Environment 91.7 85.3
Composite (W) 76.0 65.9
Conversion residual 6.8 -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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