Mapping Well-Being

Earlier this calendar week Google featured the Wellbeing Map Explorer, a map showing how people subjectively charge per unit of measurement their well-being inward unlike English linguistic communication regions. The OECD has too been mapping well-being.

The OECD measured regions to a greater extent than or less the globe inward 8 unlike areas – income, jobs, health, access to services, environment, education, safety, as well as civic engagement. H5N1 score was given to each portion inward each area.

The OECD Regional Well-Being map provides a mapped interface to explore the results of the OECD well-being assessments. Using the map you lot tin non entirely explore the well-being results for 300 regions to a greater extent than or less the globe simply you lot tin compare the results of unlike regions.

If you lot pick out a portion on the map you lot tin persuasion the region's well-being scores inward each of the 8 categories as well as you lot tin too persuasion a listing of other regions which convey like well-being scores. For illustration California has like well-being scores to the Basque province inward Kingdom of Spain as well as New York province has like scores to Greater London inward the UK.


The OECD has too mapped how people to a greater extent than or less the globe subjectively persuasion their well-being. The OECD's Better Life Index is an movement to mensurate the importance people to a greater extent than or less the globe laissez passer on to unlike factors essential for their well-being. It is a survey designed to mensurate the importance people inward unlike countries laissez passer on to xi topics close their character of life as well as textile living conditions. The OECD has too released a map which visualizes the results of the survey yesteryear country.

Each country's mark is colored to reverberate the highest rated topic yesteryear respondents to the survey inward that country. The markers are too sized to present the seat out of responses from each country. You tin mouse-over the markers to persuasion the highest rated topic for each country. If you lot click on a mark you lot tin persuasion to a greater extent than details close the selected country's results, including the seat out of responses yesteryear sex as well as historic menses as well as the ratings given to each topic.

The map includes a useful 'stories' characteristic which, when selected, zooms inward on interesting results from the survey shown on the map.