Table 7.

Life satisfaction estimates using European Quality of Life Surveys, 2003–2016, with controls and age < 70

	Age	T-statistic	Age2	T-statistic	N	Age minimum
Western Europe
Austria	− 0.06652	3.31	0.00081	3.43	3,841	41
Belgium	− 0.05144	2.91	0.00060	2.98	3,345	43
Denmark	− 0.08627	5.41	0.00110	6.31	3,195	39
Germany	− 0.08017	5.13	0.00093	5.24	6,237	43
Greece	− 0.07585	3.44	0.00060	2.43	3,271	63
Finland	− 0.08903	6.39	0.00109	6.90	3,220	41
France	− 0.05388	3.42	0.00062	3.33	4,951	43
Iceland	− 0.09428	3.23	0.00103	3.19	864	46
Ireland	− 0.07694	4.51	0.00097	4.97	3,516	40
Italy	− 0.10651	6.97	0.00113	6.65	5,825	47
Malta	− 0.04996	2.46	0.00056	2.41	3,037	45
Netherlands	− 0.05074	3.74	0.00065	4.24	3,468	39
Portugal	− 0.07805	4.16	0.00078	3.69	3,205	50
Spain	− 0.06383	3.84	0.00064	3.40	3,694	50
Sweden	− 0.04328	2.69	0.00058	3.21	3,326	37
UK	− 0.10468	6.44	0.00121	6.45	4,742	43
Eastern Europe
Bulgaria	− 0.10210	4.40	0.00088	3.32	3,215	58
Croatia	− 0.13545	5.21	0.00124	4.21	2,511	55
Czech Republic	− 0.05032	2.31	0.00048	1.92	3,721	52
Estonia	− 0.11630	5.27	0.00112	4.48	2,746	52
Hungary	− 0.10952	4.85	0.00104	4.00	3,308	53
Latvia	− 0.11653	5.41	0.00104	4.13	3,095	56
Lithuania	− 0.16968	7.32	0.00163	6.08	3,171	52
Poland	− 0.08900	4.93	0.00067	3.17	4,927	66
Romania	− 0.11880	5.43	0.00121	4.92	3,795	49
Slovenia	− 0.07512	3.21	0.00071	2.69	3,033	53
Slovakia	− 0.06905	2.99	0.00060	2.25	3600	58
Developing countries
Albania	− 0.17695	3.07	0.00206	3.07	884	43
Kosovo	− 0.09104	2.18	0.00105	2.13	1,021	43
Macedonia	− 0.12693	4.61	0.00129	4.10	2,669	49
Montenegro	− 0.12326	3.92	0.00121	3.31	1,842	51
Serbia	− 0.17731	5.18	0.00171	4.35	1,824	52
Turkey	− 0.09533	5.76	0.00115	5.89	6,584	41