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Question: How important is coming from a wealthy family for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 South Africa53.5%
2 Italy47.5%
3 Thailand46.8%
4 Croatia41.7%
5 Philippines41.1%
6 Russian Federation36.7%
7 Slovenia35.1%
8 Taiwan34.4%
9 Bulgaria33.9%
10 Suriname32.8%
11 Austria32.5%
12 Chile32.4%
13 Germany29.0%
14 United States28.9%
15 Venezuela21.4%
16 Israel20.2%
17 Lithuania19.7%
18 Czech Republic18.0%
19 Iceland16.7%
20 Japan 16.3%
21 New Zealand15.9%
22 Norway15.1%
23 United Kingdom14.7%
24 Australia13.6%
25 Sweden13.5%
26 Denmark10.3%
27 Switzerland10.0%
28 Finland7.8%
29 France7.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -3.477520 X +7.514
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.706
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.498

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -130873.369893 X +74656.003
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.632
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.399

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -23.483973 X +84.830
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.585
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.342

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 0.624113 X +1.519
Correlation coefficient (r)0.192
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 6.579681 X +9.398
Correlation coefficient (r)0.149
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022