Netherlands vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Netherlands converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 17.3 points of conversion residual (Netherlands +3.7 vs United States -13.6).

MetricNetherlandsUnited States
Health 86.2 73.3
Time & work–life 90.2 65.0
Economic security 93.1 46.4
Safety 89.4 73.4
Social connection 71.2 59.1
Environment 73.5 85.3
Composite (W) 83.5 65.9
Conversion residual 3.7 -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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