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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines92.3%
2 Chile91.3%
3 Cyprus84.8%
4 Poland81.0%
5 Portugal77.8%
6 United States77.4%
7 Ireland77.3%
8 Italy73.5%
9 Israel68.5%
10 Spain64.7%
11 Canada59.1%
12 Slovakia56.7%
13 New Zealand52.9%
14 Australia52.2%
15 Hungary51.6%
16 Austria51.3%
17 United Kingdom46.2%
18 Switzerland44.5%
19 Netherlands44.2%
20 Norway42.6%
21 Russian Federation40.2%
22 Slovenia39.4%
23 Latvia38.9%
24 France38.8%
25 Bulgaria35.4%
26 Denmark34.0%
27 Czech Republic30.5%
28 Germany28.5%
29 Sweden25.8%
30 Japan 13.1%

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

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.508557 X +6.892
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -17021.796702 X +52784.130
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.133
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -3.312178 X +81.299
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.287359 X +1.481
Correlation coefficient (r)0.160
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.535933 X +14.110
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.456
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.208