Based on way the various countries in the world are arranged in the scatterplot shown, we can draw a trendline and clearly see that there is a correlation between the corruption perception of a country's government and the recorded levels of happiness.
As a country's corruption perception levels go up, the happiness levels start to decrease.
Also note that here, our x-axis runs from 100 to 0. This is because under the corruption perceptions index measure, a lower value indicates higher levels of corruption. You can learn more about the corruption perceptions index here.
Hover your mouse pointer over any of the points in the scatterplot to view more information on the country.
Next we will explore how happiness score varies with the citizens' health with one of the most commonly used indicators of health - life expectency