{"chart":{"title":"Share of people who say they are happy","subtitle":"Share of people who respond they are \"very happy\" or \"rather happy\" to the question \"Taking all things together, would you say you are … ?\"","citation":"Integrated Values Surveys (2024)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-people-who-say-they-are-happy?csvType=full&useColumnShortNames=true","selection":["Georgia","India","Zimbabwe","Brazil","Argentina","Russia","Sweden","Germany","Albania"]},"columns":{"happy":{"titleShort":"Happiness: Happy","titleLong":"Happiness: Happy","descriptionShort":"% of respondents replying \"very happy\" or \"quite happy\" when asked \"Taking all things together, would you say you are very happy, quite happy, not very happy or not at all happy?\"","descriptionKey":"- When available, we consider “Don’t know” and “No answer” to be valid response categories and include them in percentage calculations. “Not applicable”, “Not asked”, and “Missing” responses, however, are excluded from the set of possible answers.\n- The years in the data represent the latest year of each Integrated Values Surveys wave, which is not necessarily the year of the survey. For example, the 2022 wave (IVS wave 7) includes surveys conducted between 2017 and 2022. This is done to improve comparability across waves.","descriptionProcessing":"We collected the data by merging the World Values Survey and the European Values Study, following the methodology described in the [Integrated Values Surveys (IVS) website](https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSEVStrend.jsp).\n\nWe processed the indicators from microdata of the IVS using Stata. Weights are applied for each country.\n\nWe consider “Don’t know” and “No answer” to be valid response categories and include them in percentage calculations. “Not applicable”, “Not asked”, and “Missing” responses, however, are excluded from the set of possible answers.\n\nWe processed the years in the data to represent the latest year of each IVS wave, which is not necessarily the year of the survey. For example, the 2022 wave (IVS wave 7) includes surveys conducted between 2017 and 2022.\n","shortUnit":"%","unit":"%","timespan":"1984-2022","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":1076736,"shortName":"happy","lastUpdated":"2025-06-27","nextUpdate":"2026-09-11","citationShort":"Integrated Values Surveys (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data","citationLong":"Integrated Values Surveys (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Happiness: Happy – Integrated Values Surveys” [dataset]. Integrated Values Surveys, “Integrated Values Surveys (IVS) Version 4” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1076736.metadata.json"},"1076736-annotations":{"titleShort":"1076736-annotations","titleLong":"1076736-annotations","type":"SeriesAnnotation","citationShort":" – processed by Our World in Data","citationLong":" – processed by Our World in Data. “1076736-annotations” [dataset].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/undefined.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-08-11","activeFilters":{}}