Global-Well-Being-Analytics

Exploring the Relationship between Happiness and Suicidal Rates

About The Dataset

• 183 countires on the Suicidal Dataset [144 Common + 39 Special[ 23 Not In WHR, WHR2021 + 16 Not In WHR2021]]
• 165 countires on the World Happines Report Dataset [144 Common + 5 Common WHR2021 + 16 Special]
• 149 countires on the WHR Dataset for 2021 [144 Common + 5 Common WHR]

Angola,Belize,Bhutan,Central African Republic,DRCongo,Cuba,Djibouti,Guyana,Oman,Qatar,Somalia,South Sudan,Sudan,Suriname,Syria,Trinidadand Tobago are in WHR but not in WHR 2021\

• 144 Countries are in both Datasets

Taiwan , Kosovo , Hong Kong , Palestine , North Cyprus are in WHR, WHR2021 but not in Suicidal Dataset

Six Factors Happiness Report

Income, health, having someone to count on, having a sense of freedom to make key life decisions, generosity, and the absence of corruption all play strong roles in supporting life evaluations.

• Dystopia: The lowest scores observed for the six key variables, therefore, characterize Dystopia.
  • Dystopia is an imaginary country that has the world’s least-happy people. The purpose of establishing Dystopia is to have a benchmark against which all countries can be favorably compared (no country performs more poorly than Dystopia) in terms of each of the six key variables

1. Logged GDP per capita: Gross Domestic Product, or how much each country produces, divided by the number of people in the country
   • GDP per capita gives information about the size of the economy and how the economy is performing
2. Social Support: “If you were in trouble, do you have relatives or friends you can count on to help you whenever you need them, or not?”
   • Social support, or having someone to count on in times of trouble.
3. Healthy Life Expectancy: More than life expectancy, how is your physical and mental health?
   • Mental health is a key component of subjective well-being and is also a risk factor for future physical health and longevity./ Mental health influences and drives a number of individual choices, behaviours, and outcomes.
4. Freedom to make Life Choices : “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?”
   • This also includes Human Rights. Inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status./ Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression,/ the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights without discrimination.
5. Generosity : “Have you donated money to a charity in the past month?”
   • A clear marker for a sense of positive community engagement and a central way that humans connect with each other.
   • Research shows that in all cultures, starting in early childhood, people are drawn to behaviours which benefit other people.
6. Perception of Corruption : “Is corruption widespread throughout the government or not” and “Is corruption widespread within businesses or not?”
   • Do people trust their governments and have trust in the benevolence of others?