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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - Differences in income in the country are too large.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary97.1%
2 Ukraine96.1%
3 Portugal95.4%
4 Slovenia95.3%
5 Latvia94.8%
6 Turkiye94.7%
7 Bulgaria94.2%
8 Italy93.8%
9 Russian Federation93.7%
10 Estonia93.2%
10 South Africa93.2%
12 Croatia92.4%
13 Slovakia92.0%
14 Argentina91.9%
15 Lithuania91.6%
16 China91.4%
17 Spain91.2%
18 Taiwan91.1%
19 France91.0%
20 Republic of Korea90.2%
21 Germany89.6%
22 Austria88.3%
22 Poland88.3%
24 Iceland88.2%
25 Chile87.5%
26 Switzerland87.4%
27 Czech Republic84.4%
28 Israel83.9%
29 Japan 77.9%
30 United Kingdom77.1%
31 Belgium74.7%
32 Australia74.0%
33 Sweden73.1%
34 Finland71.5%
35 Venezuela68.4%
36 Cyprus67.1%
37 United States66.5%
38 New Zealand64.9%
39 Denmark62.4%
40 Norway62.2%
41 Philippines51.4%

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

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -2.372841 X +8.449
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.419
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.176

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -85356.934479 X +107415.007
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -8.557593 X +85.423
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.001901 X +2.473
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 12.119962 X +0.319
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076