New Zealand vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

New Zealand converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 11.1 points of conversion residual (New Zealand -2.5 vs United States -13.6).

MetricNew ZealandUnited States
Health 85.2 73.3
Time & work–life 65.1 65.0
Economic security 51.9 46.4
Safety 73.7 73.4
Social connection 74.5 59.1
Environment 90.4 85.3
Composite (W) 72.3 65.9
Conversion residual -2.5 -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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