According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, a daily assessment of U.S. residents' health and well-being, Hawaii residents' well-being ranked at 70.2, while West Virginia's fell at 62.3. This state-level data is based on daily surveys conducted from January through December 2011. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is calculated on a scale of 0 to 100, where a score of 100 represents ideal well-being.
The Well-Being Index score for the nation was 66.2 in 2011, down slightly from 66.8 in 2010 and the lowest score Gallup and Healthways have recorded since tracking began in 2008. The decrease in the overall score in 2011 is because of small declines across all six of the sub-indexes that comprise the Well-Being Index.
