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Question: In the past 12 months, how often, if at all, have you taken part in activities of groups or associations for leisure, sports or culture?
Choices: "Once a week or more" "One to three times a month" "Several times in the past year" "Once in the past year" "Never"
Data: % of "Never"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 China 72.8%
2 Lithuania68.8%
3 Philippines65.8%
4 South Africa64.8%
5 Taiwan61.6%
6 Russian Federation59.2%
7 Japan56.6%
8 Hungary55.4%
9 Spain55.1%
10 Austria50.1%
11 Slovenia48.6%
12 Czech Republic48.2%
13 Israel45.7%
14 Mexico45.1%
15 Suriname43.0%
16 Germany40.1%
17 Croatia39.5%
18 United Kingdom38.7%
19 United States37.7%
20 Slovakia35.6%
21 France34.6%
22 Finland33.0%
23 Iceland32.2%
24 Switzerland31.6%
25 Sweden30.3%
26 Australia29.9%
27 Thailand29.1%
28 India28.7%
29 New Zealand25.9%
30 Denmark25.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -1.668069 X +7.291
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.312
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -92854.836548 X +79047.875
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.501
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.251

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -15.195374 X +85.102
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.386
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.149

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 0.205469 X +1.567
Correlation coefficient (r)0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 6.945323 X +8.346
Correlation coefficient (r)0.173
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030