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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Economic progress in the country will slow down unless we look after the environment better
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico71.9%
2 Philippines68.2%
3 Portugal67.7%
4 Chile63.5%
5 Bulgaria59.8%
6 Slovenia57.4%
7 Spain57.2%
8 Ireland56.5%
9 Latvia54.6%
10 Canada54.1%
11 Sweden51.7%
12 Israel51.2%
13 United States50.8%
14 Austria50.3%
15 Denmark50.2%
16 Russian Federation47.3%
17 Germany47.0%
18 Japan 46.3%
19 United Kingdom45.5%
20 New Zealand45.0%
21 Czech Republic43.4%
22 Finland42.6%
23 Norway37.0%
24 Switzerland35.2%
25 Netherlands21.1%

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 = -2.639456 X +8.075
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.513
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.263

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -139335.798647 X +116693.524
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.550
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.303

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -19.751985 X +89.405
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.458
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.210

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.689984 X +1.316
Correlation coefficient (r)0.195
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -11.610690 X +15.740
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100