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Question: How much confidence do you have in courts and the legal system?
Choices: "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence" "Very little confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "Complete confidence" "A great deal of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark90.3%
2 Norway88.6%
3 Finland87.6%
4 Switzerland84.9%
5 Austria80.7%
6 Germany79.5%
7 Sweden78.9%
8 Netherlands78.5%
9 Republic of Korea77.9%
10 United States76.7%
11 Poland76.4%
12 Turkiye73.5%
13 Japan73.0%
14 France 69.9%
15 Israel68.8%
16 Australia66.9%
17 Slovenia65.2%
18 New Zealand64.5%
19 Ireland64.4%
19 United Kingdom64.4%
21 Hungary63.8%
22 Belgium61.9%
23 Slovakia58.9%
24 Latvia56.3%
25 Italy56.0%
26 Portugal54.8%
27 Spain54.1%
28 Czech Republic44.9%
29 Mexico41.1%
30 Chile33.6%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 1.577105 X +5.618
Correlation coefficient (r)0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 107517.805161 X -28158.784
Correlation coefficient (r)0.585
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.342

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 11.108091 X +72.628
Correlation coefficient (r)0.425
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.142663 X +1.700
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 7.083612 X +5.108
Correlation coefficient (r)0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066