Subject matter
Trends of quality-of-life in nations.
Contents
1) Trend data on happiness in nations and derived indicators, such as happy life years and
inequality of happiness.
2) Trend data on nation characteristics used for explaining change in happiness over time,
such as income per head.
Coverage
14 nations of which we know average happiness over a period of at least 20 years,
involving 10 or more comparable datapoints.
Aims
1) Assessing trends of happiness in nations.
2) Explaining change in happiness in nations over time.
Application
Recent analyses using this dataset are presented in the Finding Reports in the
section on 'Distributional findings in Nations' of this World Database of Happiness
How to cite this source
Quote as: R. Veenhoven, World Database of Happiness, Trend in Nations.
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Available at: www.worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/trendnat/framepage.htm (+ year)
Last revision: 2009-1-11
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