# Tax, time and lived wellbeing

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# 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.

[Download normalised data (CSV)](https://www.pluraterra.com/data/tax-and-lived-experience.csv) · [Coverage and raw-file hashes](https://www.pluraterra.com/data/expansion-audit.json) · [Full WHR source panel, including economies outside the atlas (CSV)](https://www.pluraterra.com/data/whr-source-panel.csv)

## 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.