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Question: These five diagrams show different types of society. Please read the descriptions and look at the diagrams and decide which you think best describes is the country today.
Type AType BType CType DType E
A small elite at the top, very few people in the middle and the great mass of people at the bottom.A society like a pyramid with a small elite at the top, more people in the middle, and most at the bottom.A pyramid except that just a few people are at the bottom.A society with most people in the middle.Many people near the top, and only a few near the bottom.

Data: % of Type D
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark58.7%
1 Norway58.7%
3 Iceland47.6%
4 Australia40.7%
5 Switzerland39.8%
6 Sweden37.9%
7 Finland35.6%
8 New Zealand33.3%
9 Belgium32.1%
10 United States26.0%
11 Austria22.6%
12 United Kingdom20.9%
13 Japan 20.0%
14 Germany18.6%
15 Spain17.0%
16 Taiwan16.0%
17 Republic of Korea15.1%
18 Czech Republic13.5%
19 Cyprus13.0%
20 Poland12.6%
21 Slovenia12.3%
22 China12.2%
23 France12.1%
24 Chile11.7%
24 Italy11.7%
26 Venezuela10.2%
27 Philippines10.0%
28 Estonia9.8%
29 Israel9.3%
30 Turkiye8.9%
31 Russian Federation8.4%
32 Slovakia7.4%
33 Argentina7.0%
34 South Africa6.6%
35 Portugal6.5%
36 Lithuania5.9%
37 Croatia5.5%
38 Hungary3.7%
39 Bulgaria3.3%
40 Latvia2.4%
40 Ukraine2.4%

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

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 3.358993 X +5.838
Correlation coefficient (r)0.744
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.554

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 134433.679434 X +12656.425
Correlation coefficient (r)0.832
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.692

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 16.598881 X +75.807
Correlation coefficient (r)0.524
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.275

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.385269 X +1.645
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.146
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.137947 X +10.714
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001