Iceland vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Iceland converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 30.1 points of conversion residual (Iceland +16.5 vs United States -13.6).

MetricIcelandUnited States
Health 90.6 73.3
Time & work–life 81.0 65.0
Economic security 93.2 46.4
Safety 93.2 73.4
Social connection 85.4 59.1
Environment 95.7 85.3
Composite (W) 89.7 65.9
Conversion residual 16.5 -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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