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Question: Please tell me whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements. How about "Most elected officials care what people like me think"?
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia78.0%
2 Philippines69.1%
3 India63.0%
4 Turkiye57.6%
5 Sweden57.5%
6 Netherlands55.3%
7 South Africa51.1%
8 Poland48.6%
9 Canada40.5%
10 Russian Federation38.7%
11 Australia38.6%
12 Kenya38.2%
13 Republic of Korea37.6%
14 Germany36.6%
15 Israel35.4%
16 Mexico34.7%
17 Slovakia34.3%
18 Nigeria33.2%
19 United Kingdom30.8%
20 Italy30.5%
21 Lithuania30.0%
22 Lebanon29.5%
23 Brazil29.1%
24 United States28.0%
25 Hungary27.6%
26 Japan 25.7%
27 France25.3%
28 Czech Republic24.8%
29 Spain21.7%
30 Argentina20.1%
31 Tunisia18.3%
32 Bulgaria17.3%
33 Ukraine17.0%
34 Greece11.2%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.038383 X +5.978
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -12807.191525 X +32506.815
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -9.092358 X +79.341
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.878379 X +1.502
Correlation coefficient (r)0.176
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -0.598668 X +9.854
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.016
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000