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Question: Please tell me whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements. How about "Most people are better off in a free market economy, even though some people are rich and some are poor"?
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland83.6%
2 Republic of Korea 82.7%
3 United States77.7%
4 Sweden74.8%
5 Israel74.7%
6 Germany74.1%
7 Hungary73.2%
8 United Kingdom72.8%
9 Australia72.7%
10 Czech Republic72.5%
11 Canada70.2%
12 Italy66.0%
13 Turkiye65.8%
14 Slovakia62.5%
15 Greece62.4%
16 Spain62.2%
17 Netherlands61.3%
18 France60.4%
19 Lithuania55.6%
20 Japan45.7%
21 Mexico42.2%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.676749 X +6.096
Correlation coefficient (r)0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 61642.610232 X -1793.844
Correlation coefficient (r)0.358
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.128

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 3.660956 X +77.832
Correlation coefficient (r)0.135
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.079097 X +1.584
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 9.210367 X +3.419
Correlation coefficient (r)0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041