Structure of the collections

The World Database of Happiness is an ongoing register of scientific research on the subjective enjoyment of life.
It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work.

World literature on subjective wellbeing


Selection on fit with definition of happiness

Bibliography    and     Directory    

Selection of empirical studies and within these on valid measurement: Happiness Measures
Abstracting and classification of findings

How happy people are, distributional findings What goes together with happiness

Happiness in Nations , Happiness in Publics Correlational Findings

  Listing of comparable findings in Nations  
States of Nations   ,   Trends in Nations


Size of the collections
6750 publications on Bibliography of happiness, of which 3329 report empirical investigations using accepted measures of happiness.
739 measures of happiness used in 1417 studies.
4899 distributional findings in the general public in 158 nations.
14089 correlational findings observed in 1414 studies excerpted from 1065 publications. About twice as much findings waiting to be entered.