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Question: Please indicate which statement below comes closest to expressing what you believe about God.
Choices: "I don't believe in God" "I don't know whether there is a God and I don't believe there is any way to find out" "I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind" "I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others" "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Data: % of "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Period:
Area:
19 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines93.9%
2 Ireland83.4%
3 United States81.2%
4 Poland78.5%
5 Italy73.8%
6 Spain69.6%
7 Canada64.5%
8 Israel58.2%
9 Australia53.2%
10 New Zealand50.3%
11 United Kingdom48.7%
12 Norway45.7%
13 Slovenia39.3%
14 Russian Federation38.1%
15 Netherlands37.7%
16 Bulgaria35.8%
17 Germany30.9%
18 Czech Republic25.8%
19 Japan 17.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 219 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 0.051235 X +6.608
Correlation coefficient (r)0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 15824.734149 X +36876.102
Correlation coefficient (r)0.122
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -3.491992 X +81.350
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.156
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = 0.496684 X +1.406
Correlation coefficient (r)0.234
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data19
Regression equation
Y = -7.228217 X +13.379
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131