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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:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines93.6%
2 Mexico91.2%
3 Chile90.6%
4 United States82.3%
5 Portugal81.9%
6 Ireland76.0%
7 Israel69.6%
8 Spain66.7%
9 Canada64.6%
10 Austria53.9%
11 New Zealand49.8%
12 Finland49.0%
13 Switzerland48.0%
14 United Kingdom46.0%
15 Russian Federation42.8%
16 Norway41.8%
17 Netherlands38.2%
18 Slovenia37.5%
19 Bulgaria36.5%
20 Latvia36.0%
21 Denmark34.6%
22 Germany34.2%
23 Czech Republic26.1%
24 Sweden25.8%
25 Japan 12.9%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.356157 X +6.917
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.142
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -15293.599957 X +53738.148
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -5.971383 X +82.504
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.284
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.570454 X +1.365
Correlation coefficient (r)0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -7.542735 X +13.828
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178