GDP per person (US$)Well-being (scale of 0-10)5,00010,00015,00020,00025,00030,00035,00040,0004.44.64.85.05.25.45.65.8

What makes us happy?

Is there a connection between our well-being and economic/social measures such as GDP?

This scatterplot plots the well-being of 22 European countries against 10 different measures. Start by clicking the measures above and see what trends you can identify.

Well-being data is from the New Economics Foundation's National Accounts of Well-being and the category data is from Gapminder.

Built by Peter Cook.