Average life satisfaction by country, 2025, European Union (27 countries)
The average answer of people aged 16 or over to the question of how satisfied they are with their life as a whole, on a scale from 0 (not at all satisfied) to 10 (completely satisfied).
27 places ranked for 2025. Highest: Finland (7.8 out of 10). Lowest: Bulgaria (6.3 out of 10). The median is 7.4 out of 10.
Members since the United Kingdom left the EU on 31 January 2020. About this group
Highest 10
Lowest 10
- 27. Bulgaria 6.3 out of 10
- 26. Latvia 6.9 out of 10
- 25. Greece 6.9 out of 10
- 24. Germany 7.0 out of 10
- 23. Italy 7.1 out of 10
- 22. Hungary 7.1 out of 10u (low reliability)
- 21. France 7.1 out of 10u (low reliability)
- 20. Spain 7.2 out of 10
- 19. Portugal 7.3 out of 10u (low reliability)
- 18. Lithuania 7.3 out of 10p (provisional)
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Source: Eurostat.
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finland | 7.8 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 2 | Romania | 7.8 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 3 | Austria | 7.7 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 4 | Denmark | 7.7 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 5 | Poland | 7.7 out of 10u (low reliability) | 2025 | |
| 6 | Belgium | 7.6 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 7 | Ireland | 7.6 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 8 | Malta | 7.6 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 9 | Netherlands | 7.6 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 10 | Slovenia | 7.6 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 11 | Croatia | 7.4 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 12 | Cyprus | 7.4 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 13 | Czechia | 7.4 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 14 | Luxembourg | 7.4 out of 10b (break in time series) | 2025 | |
| 15 | Slovakia | 7.4 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 16 | Sweden | 7.4 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 17 | Estonia | 7.3 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 18 | Lithuania | 7.3 out of 10p (provisional) | 2025 | |
| 19 | Portugal | 7.3 out of 10u (low reliability) | 2025 | |
| 20 | Spain | 7.2 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 21 | France | 7.1 out of 10u (low reliability) | 2025 | |
| 22 | Hungary | 7.1 out of 10u (low reliability) | 2025 | |
| 23 | Italy | 7.1 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 24 | Germany | 7.0 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 25 | Greece | 6.9 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 26 | Latvia | 6.9 out of 10 | 2025 | |
| 27 | Bulgaria | 6.3 out of 10 | 2025 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2025, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2025 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by Eurostat; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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