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Question: How important is it to have the following things in our country? - people can use the internet without state/ government censorship
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not too important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Somewhat important"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary97.1%
2 Spain97.0%
3 Sweden95.5%
4 United States95.4%
5 Netherlands95.1%
6 Germany94.6%
7 Argentina94.2%
8 Canada94.1%
9 Czech Republic93.6%
10 Greece93.5%
11 Bulgaria 93.3%
12 France92.8%
13 Republic of Korea92.1%
14 United Kingdom91.5%
15 Poland91.3%
16 Australia89.8%
17 Ukraine89.7%
18 Slovakia89.6%
19 Italy88.0%
20 Mexico87.8%
21 Lithuania87.5%
22 Japan87.0%
23 Turkiye86.8%
24 Philippines84.5%
25 Brazil80.5%
25 Russian Federation80.5%
27 Nigeria79.7%
28 India74.3%
28 South Africa74.3%
30 Indonesia70.1%
31 Israel69.7%
32 Kenya58.7%
33 Tunisia47.5%
34 Lebanon46.4%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 5.617920 X +1.227
Correlation coefficient (r)0.712
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.507

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 79781.328880 X -42075.606
Correlation coefficient (r)0.497
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.247

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 24.460222 X +54.494
Correlation coefficient (r)0.432
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.187

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -2.706006 X +4.156
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.451
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.203

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 8.536690 X +2.397
Correlation coefficient (r)0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038