Why is there no longitudinal data of global life satisfaction and global happiness here: https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction (there is lots of country-specific longitudinal data)? Could you add a feature that let’s the user combine several countries into one graph (so you could compare e.g. life satisfaction of Scandinavian countries over time with life satisfaction of South American countries over time)?
Hi nalthaus, thanks for the question! Calculating a population-weighted global average for Self-reported life satisfaction is on our backlog of issues, so this will be tackled at some point! We’ll most likely add continental averages as well.
Your second suggestion touches on a larger issue that we’re often considering: how to give more freedom to users to (dis)aggregate data in a way that we don’t want to pre-generate ourselves. “Life satisfaction across Scandinavian countries” is a great example of such a request. We have yet to come up with the right ideas (and resources to implement them!) to solve this problem, but it’s on the long-term roadmap of our Product & Design team.
Why is there no longitudinal data of global life satisfaction and global happiness here: https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction (there is lots of country-specific longitudinal data)?
Could you add a feature that let’s the user combine several countries into one graph (so you could compare e.g. life satisfaction of Scandinavian countries over time with life satisfaction of South American countries over time)?
Hi nalthaus, thanks for the question! Calculating a population-weighted global average for Self-reported life satisfaction is on our backlog of issues, so this will be tackled at some point! We’ll most likely add continental averages as well.
Your second suggestion touches on a larger issue that we’re often considering: how to give more freedom to users to (dis)aggregate data in a way that we don’t want to pre-generate ourselves. “Life satisfaction across Scandinavian countries” is a great example of such a request. We have yet to come up with the right ideas (and resources to implement them!) to solve this problem, but it’s on the long-term roadmap of our Product & Design team.
Great, thx for your reply!