Income,
aging, health and wellbeing around the world:
Evidence
from the
Angus
Deaton - Center for Health and Wellbeing
Research
Program in
July
2007
Available online as
PDF [46p.] at:
http://www.princeton.edu/~rpds/downloads/Deaton_Aging_and_wellbeing_around_the_world_All_July_07.pdf
“….During 2006, the
Gallup Organization collected World Poll data using an identical questionnaire
from national samples of adults from 132 countries. This paper presents an
analysis of the data on life-satisfaction (happiness) and health satisfaction
and their relationships with national income, age, and life-expectancy.
Average
happiness is strongly related to per capita national income, with each doubling
of income associated with a near one point increase in life satisfaction on a
scale from 0 to 10. Unlike previous findings, the effect holds across the range
of international incomes; if anything, it is slightly stronger among rich
countries. Conditional on national income, recent economic growth makes people
unhappier, improvements in life-expectancy make them happier, but
life-expectancy itself has little effect.
Age has
an internationally inconsistent relationship with happiness. National income
moderates the effects of aging on self-reported health, and the decline in
health satisfaction and rise in disability with age are much stronger in poor
countries than in rich countries. In line with earlier findings, people in much
of Eastern Europe and in the countries of the former Soviet Union are
particularly unhappy and particularly dissatisfied with their health, and older
people in those countries are much less satisfied with their lives and their
health than are younger people. HIV prevalence in
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