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Question: Generally speaking, would you say that people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?
Choices: "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted" "You usually can't be too careful in dealing with people" "You almost always can't be too careful in dealing with people"
Data: % of "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark81.4%
2 Norway75.4%
3 Sweden73.7%
4 Iceland69.0%
5 Netherlands65.7%
6 Switzerland64.9%
7 Finland63.1%
8 Australia60.8%
9 Austria60.0%
10 Czech Republic56.0%
11 Germany52.1%
12 Republic of Korea50.2%
13 United Kingdom50.1%
14 Spain49.5%
15 Belgium41.8%
16 Hungary40.7%
17 United States37.5%
18 Israel37.4%
19 France34.0%
20 Japan 33.9%
21 Slovakia32.5%
22 Slovenia29.9%
23 Lithuania24.2%
24 Poland20.2%
25 Chile19.0%
26 Turkiye14.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 2.059782 X +5.782
Correlation coefficient (r)0.692
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.479

Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 2.334523 X +5.652
Correlation coefficient (r)0.724
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.524

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 92981.396830 X +6034.394
Correlation coefficient (r)0.729
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.531

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 6.454455 X +78.224
Correlation coefficient (r)0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.032989 X +1.452
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.018
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 1.005060 X +10.233
Correlation coefficient (r)0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002