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Question: Do you agree that life does not serve any purpose?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States92.2%
2 Australia87.6%
3 Japan87.1%
4 United Kingdom83.0%
5 France82.1%
6 Republic of Korea80.8%
7 Germany80.2%
8 Italy79.2%
9 Sweden 63.7%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -2.183008 X +8.412
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.406
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.165

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 42210.906925 X +13737.660
Correlation coefficient (r)0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -12.575097 X +92.216
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.413
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.012827 X +1.474
Correlation coefficient (r)0.003
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5.101766 X +7.013
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007