This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the … biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included … health does, and much more than unemployment and income do. Income explains 1% of the variance of life-satisfaction or less …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …