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Question: Do you think policies in (survey country) would improve, would get worse or would mostly stay the same if more elected officials were religious?
Choices: "Improve" "Get worse" "Mostly stay the same"
Data: % of "Improve"
Period:
Area:
16 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel29.7%
2 Mexico27.6%
3 Greece24.3%
4 Hungary22.0%
4 Italy22.0%
6 Poland20.7%
7 Netherlands18.0%
8 United Kingdom17.0%
9 Canada15.4%
10 Republic of Korea12.8%
11 Spain12.2%
12 Germany11.4%
13 France11.3%
14 Australia10.1%
15 Sweden 6.7%
16 Japan4.7%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 22 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2023.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -0.109769 X +6.641
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -89411.494172 X +55918.885
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -21.362408 X +84.700
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.571
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.326

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 2.947595 X +1.018
Correlation coefficient (r)0.483
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.233

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -32.425475 X +14.524
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.546
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.298