Tax, time and lived wellbeing

47,230 additional observations across 20 measures, retrieved November 2, 2026. Coverage below refers to the 197-economy atlas cohort.

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What was accepted

Eight World Bank fiscal, spending, price and homicide series; eight OECD tax-household scenarios; three sex-specific ILO modelled working-hours series; and WHR life evaluation with published 95% confidence limits. WHR’s explanatory contributions are not social-support or freedom survey percentages. ILO’s 2026–27 projections and regional aggregates are excluded from the atlas.

Measure	Provider	Observations	Economies 2023	Economies 2025
Tax revenue	World Bank	3,023	111	0
Income, profit and capital-gains tax share	World Bank	2,953	108	0
Goods and services tax share	World Bank	2,998	111	0
International trade tax share	World Bank	2,491	86	0
Government health spending	World Bank	4,403	184	0
Government education spending	World Bank	3,286	119	2
Intentional homicide	World Bank	2,954	83	0
Consumer price inflation	World Bank	4,632	176	169
Tax wedge: Single, no children · 67% average wage	OECD	988	38	38
Tax wedge: Single, no children · average wage	OECD	988	38	38
Tax wedge: Single, no children · 167% average wage	OECD	988	38	38
Tax wedge: Single parent, 2 children · 67% average wage	OECD	988	38	38
Tax wedge: Couple, 2 children · one average-wage earner	OECD	988	38	38
Tax wedge: Couple, 2 children · 100% + 67% average wages	OECD	988	38	38
Tax wedge: Couple, 2 children · two average-wage earners	OECD	988	38	38
Tax wedge: Couple, no children · 100% + 67% average wages	OECD	988	38	38
Weekly work hours: All employed people	ILO	3,663	172	171
Weekly work hours: Women in employment	ILO	3,663	172	171
Weekly work hours: Men in employment	ILO	3,663	172	171
Life evaluation (3-year mean)	World Happiness Report	1,597	140	144

Definitions matter

The tax wedge uses employer labour cost as its denominator and includes employer contributions; it is not the percentage deducted from take-home pay. World Bank tax-component shares use total revenue as their denominator. Work hours describe employed people, not free time for the whole population. WHR year labels describe the end of a three-year survey window; the latest is 2023–2025.

Still missing

Household budgets after housing and childcare, directly measured social support, loneliness, meaning and trust are not in this release. Trust and happiness cannot be reconstructed from modelled explanatory contributions. New metrics are available in the atlas and profiles; the experimental ranking specification remains unchanged.