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Question: Generally speaking, would you say that people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?
Choices: "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted" "You usually can't be too careful in dealing with people" "You almost always can't be too careful in dealing with people"
Data: % of "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted"
Period:
Area:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark77.0%
2 Norway73.4%
3 Cyprus69.2%
4 Sweden65.8%
5 Switzerland65.1%
6 Austria59.9%
7 Netherlands57.7%
8 New Zealand57.0%
9 Canada56.9%
10 Finland56.4%
11 Australia54.8%
12 Czech Republic50.2%
13 Ireland50.1%
14 United States48.2%
15 Germany48.0%
15 Mexico48.0%
17 Hungary46.9%
18 Spain46.8%
18 United Kingdom46.8%
20 Uruguay38.2%
21 Belgium37.9%
22 Israel37.2%
23 Republic of Korea36.7%
24 France36.6%
25 Slovakia34.0%
26 Portugal33.0%
27 Japan 32.3%
28 Slovenia32.1%
29 South Africa30.9%
30 Brazil24.9%
31 Venezuela23.9%
32 Taiwan23.8%
33 Russian Federation22.3%
34 Latvia21.9%
35 Bulgaria19.2%
36 Philippines16.5%
37 Poland16.1%
38 Chile12.3%

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

No data for 200 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 2.280904 X +5.614
Correlation coefficient (r)0.682
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.465

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 110827.899589 X -7649.043
Correlation coefficient (r)0.717
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.514

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 18.097826 X +70.665
Correlation coefficient (r)0.569
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.324

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -0.439872 X +1.843
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -2.658190 X +11.565
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.090
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008