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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Economic growth always harm the environment
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal63.5%
2 Mexico60.0%
3 Chile52.6%
4 Bulgaria50.1%
5 Japan 48.7%
6 Philippines42.7%
7 Switzerland39.9%
8 Slovenia37.9%
9 Russian Federation37.3%
10 Israel32.9%
11 Finland32.4%
12 Germany29.7%
13 Austria28.4%
14 Netherlands27.7%
15 Spain27.5%
16 Denmark26.5%
17 Latvia23.9%
18 Czech Republic22.9%
19 Ireland22.7%
20 Canada19.7%
21 United States19.3%
22 United Kingdom18.3%
23 Sweden16.7%
24 New Zealand15.4%
25 Norway14.6%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.239505 X +7.455
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.547
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.299

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -115304.137863 X +83022.899
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.572
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.327

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -12.378273 X +83.345
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.085655 X +1.640
Correlation coefficient (r)0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -7.172677 X +12.144
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.246
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061