Portugal vs United States

Wellbeing & wealth-to-wellbeing conversion · 2024

Portugal converts wealth into wellbeing more efficiently — by 18.1 points of conversion residual (Portugal +4.4 vs United States -13.6).

MetricPortugalUnited States
Health 87.1 73.3
Time & work–life 68.8 65.0
Economic security 64.4 46.4
Safety 86.7 73.4
Social connection 50.5 59.1
Environment 82.9 85.3
Composite (W) 72.1 65.9
Conversion residual 4.4 -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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