Global Wellbeing Map

Prototype v0.2. Real data from Our World in Data and WHO.

How the composite index is calculated

Each of three measures is scaled from 0 to 1 over a fixed range, then the three are averaged with equal weight (one third each) and multiplied by 100.

Happiness: 3 to 8 on the 0–10 life-evaluation scale (World Happiness Report).
Life expectancy: 55 to 84 years (UN).
Suicide rate: 30 down to 0 per 100,000, inverted so a lower rate scores higher (WHO).

Countries missing any of the three get no composite score. The depression estimate (WHO, 2015) is shown on its own tab and is not in the composite, because it reflects diagnosis and reporting as well as illness, and it is older than the other data. Weights and ranges are provisional.