A new version of this website is available since 2020 August 1 at the old address worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl
This old website is renamed as worlddatabaseofhappiness-archive.eur.nl and is still maintained.
The new website links to some parts of this old website for the time being.


Structure of the collections

The World Database of Happiness is an archive of research findings on subjective enjoyment of life .
It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic work.

World literature on subjective wellbeing


Selection on fit with definition of happiness

Bibliography    and     Directory    

Selection of empirical studies and within these on valid measurement: Happiness measures
Abstracting and classification of findings

How happy people are, distributional findings What goes together with happiness

Happiness in nations
Happiness in regions
Happiness in publics Correlational findings

  Listing of comparable findings in nations  
States of nations   ,   Trends in nations


Size of the collections
15695 publications in Bibliography of happiness, of which 8115 report an empirical study that is eligible for inclusion in the findings archive.
1462 measures of happiness, mostly single survey questions varying in wording and response scale.
15623 distributional findings in the general public, of which 11904 in 174 nations (former nations and de facto nations included) and 3719 findings in 2416 regions and cities in nations.
3490 studies with findings in 186 specific publics.
23433 correlational findings observed in 3001 studies, excerpted from 2089 publications.