Is Denmark the happiest country in the world? WVSA
Until recently, it was widely held that happiness fluctuates around set points, so that neither individuals nor societies can lastingly increase their happiness.

Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World, Ronald Inglehart
This map reflects the fact that a large number of basic values are closely correlated; they can be depicted in just two major dimensions of cross-cultural variation. ** Update ** Added supplementary data file.

Learn more about the WVS,
Brochure presenting the World Values Survey.

New wave of surveys,
The World Values Survey (WVS) network will carry out a new wave of surveys in 2010 - 2011. This will provide a 30-year time series for the analysis of social and political change.