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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Economic growth always harm the environment
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 60.3%
2 Bulgaria58.1%
3 Italy56.1%
4 Poland48.9%
5 Slovenia47.7%
6 Germany45.5%
7 Spain42.3%
8 Hungary41.5%
9 Russian Federation41.2%
10 Philippines40.9%
11 Czech Republic35.5%
12 Ireland32.4%
13 Netherlands30.1%
14 United Kingdom25.7%
15 Israel25.1%
16 United States21.1%
17 Australia19.7%
18 Canada19.5%
19 Norway18.1%
20 New Zealand17.6%

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

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -2.818007 X +7.630
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.747
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.558

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -128464.340899 X +90798.558
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.640
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.410

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -9.849916 X +82.797
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.284
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.844530 X +1.978
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.057114 X +10.701
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010