Life satisfaction across 353 European regions -> your country matter’s more than your region
Each row is a country (sorted by mean), each dot is a region. Red diamonds are country means.
87% of the variation in life satisfaction is between countries, only 13% within. Your country determines far more than your specific region.
Notable spreads: Italy (Lombardia 7.2 vs Campania 5.96), Germany (East-West gap from my previous post), and Bulgaria (widest range, 3.0 to 6.2). The Nordic countries cluster tightly at the top — uniformly high.
353 regions, 31 countries. Data from the European Social Survey, rounds 1–8 (2002–2016). #education source