Above the line
Happier than their income
11 countries rate life at least 1 point higher than the line predicts for their income: Mozambique, Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Finland, Mexico, Guatemala, Niger and Kyrgyzstan.
Happier than their income
11 countries rate life a point or more above what their income predicts; 9 rate it a point or more below
Every country with both figures. Across, income per person adjusted for local prices. Up the side, how people rate their own lives from 0 to 10. The dashed line is the trend across all 141. The cards below name the countries furthest from it.
- 1 point or more above the line
- 1 point or more below
- Every other country
Mozambique: rates life 1.6 points higher than the line predicts for its income, the furthest above it.
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Source: World Happiness Report, 2026 edition; World Bank, GDP per capita (PPP). geo-reality.com
Below the line
Less happy than their income
9 countries rate life at least 1 point lower than the line predicts: Afghanistan, Botswana, Egypt, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Sierra Leone and Turkey.
The line
What income explains
Across the 141 countries, each tenfold rise in income per person goes with 1.8 more points on the 0 to 10 scale. Income accounts for 64% of the spread in scores. The line shows an association and says nothing about cause.
60 countries not plotted, and why
The chart plots only countries with both figures from the sources below. A missing figure stays missing; we don't fill gaps. Countries without a complete pair:
- Andorra (no happiness score)
- Angola (no happiness score)
- Antigua and Barbuda (no happiness score)
- Aruba (no happiness score)
- Bahamas (no happiness score)
- Barbados (no happiness score)
- Belarus (no happiness score)
- Bhutan (no happiness score)
- Brunei (no happiness score)
- Burundi (no happiness score)
- Cape Verde (no happiness score)
- Central African Republic (no happiness score)
- Cuba (no income figure and no happiness score)
- Djibouti (no happiness score)
- Dominica (no happiness score)
- Equatorial Guinea (no happiness score)
- Eritrea (no income figure and no happiness score)
- Fiji (no happiness score)
- French Guiana (no income figure and no happiness score)
- New Caledonia (no income figure and no happiness score)
- French Polynesia (no income figure and no happiness score)
- Greenland (no happiness score)
- Grenada (no happiness score)
- Guinea-Bissau (no happiness score)
- Guyana (no happiness score)
- Haiti (no happiness score)
- Kiribati (no happiness score)
- Liechtenstein (no income figure and no happiness score)
- Maldives (no happiness score)
- Marshall Islands (no happiness score)
- Micronesia (no happiness score)
- Monaco (no income figure and no happiness score)
- Nauru (no happiness score)
- North Korea (no income figure and no happiness score)
- Palau (no happiness score)
- Puerto Rico (no happiness score)
- Papua New Guinea (no happiness score)
- Qatar (no happiness score)
- Curaçao (no happiness score)
- Rwanda (no happiness score)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (no happiness score)
- Saint Lucia (no happiness score)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (no happiness score)
- Samoa (no happiness score)
- San Marino (no happiness score)
- São Tomé and Príncipe (no happiness score)
- Seychelles (no happiness score)
- Solomon Islands (no happiness score)
- South Sudan (no income figure and no happiness score)
- Sudan (no happiness score)
- Suriname (no happiness score)
- Syria (no happiness score)
- Taiwan (no income figure)
- Timor-Leste (no happiness score)
- Tonga (no happiness score)
- Turkmenistan (no happiness score)
- Tuvalu (no happiness score)
- Vanuatu (no happiness score)
- Venezuela (no income figure)
- Yemen (no income figure)
Sources. Life evaluation: World Happiness Report, 2026 edition data (Gallup World Poll; people rate their life from the worst possible, 0, to the best possible, 10). Income: World Bank, GDP per capita at purchasing power parity in current international dollars, indicator NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD, latest year per country. The line is a least-squares fit of the score on the logarithm of income, recomputed from these 141 countries every time the data updates; 60 countries omitted for missing data. Full methodology →