United Kingdom vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

United Kingdom converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 12.3 points of conversion residual (United Kingdom -1.3 vs United States -13.6).

MetricUnited KingdomUnited States
Health 83.1 73.3
Time & work–life 77.9 65.0
Economic security 64.3 46.4
Safety 84.0 73.4
Social connection 51.5 59.1
Environment 77.3 85.3
Composite (W) 72.0 65.9
Conversion residual -1.3 -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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