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Question: Overall, when you consider all the advantages and disadvantages of social media, would you say social media has been more of a good thing or more of a bad thing for democracy in (survey country)?
Choices: "Good thing" "Bad thing"
Data: % of "Good thing"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland82.0%
2 Singapore80.5%
3 Malaysia76.3%
4 Hungary71.9%
5 Japan71.4%
6 Israel70.8%
7 Sweden67.5%
8 Republic of Korea66.6%
9 Greece65.9%
10 Spain61.5%
11 Italy59.6%
12 Germany56.0%
13 United Kingdom51.2%
14 Canada 49.8%
15 Belgium47.8%
16 France47.1%
17 Australia46.5%
18 Netherlands43.7%
19 United States33.4%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 219 countries.
Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2022. For the United States, Pew Research Center "American Trends Panel Wave 105" March 2022.

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -1.553816 X +7.541
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.453
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.205
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -67923.281904 X +84981.480
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.471
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.222
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -3.427557 X +83.005
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -0.325427 X +1.746
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -5.453455 X +13.022
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.175
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031