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On a scale of 0 to 10 nearly 80 % of European residents rated their overall life satisfaction in 2013 at 6 or higher. This represents an average (mean) satisfaction of 7.1, with values ranging from 4.8 in Bulgaria (followed by Portugal, Hungary, Greece and Cyprus, all at 6.2) to 8.0 in Finland, Denmark and Sweden. Women and men were nearly equally satisfied and younger EU citizens were more satisfied than the other age groups. Unemployed and inactive people were on average the least satisfied (5.8) compared to full-time employed (7.4) or people in education or training (7.8), who reported the highest rates of life satisfaction.