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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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway81.3%
2 Sweden73.7%
3 Switzerland68.0%
4 Finland67.3%
5 New Zealand66.6%
6 Australia63.8%
7 Austria61.4%
8 Japan 60.7%
9 Ireland55.2%
10 Cyprus53.1%
11 Hungary50.5%
12 Czech Republic50.0%
13 Belgium49.7%
14 United States48.8%
15 United Kingdom48.7%
16 Germany47.6%
17 Republic of Korea46.2%
18 Israel42.7%
19 France42.4%
20 Slovenia38.8%
20 Taiwan38.8%
22 Latvia33.9%
23 South Africa33.4%
24 Poland30.3%
25 Uruguay29.2%
26 Slovakia28.4%
27 Russian Federation28.3%
28 Dominican Republic26.7%
29 Mexico26.1%
30 Argentina24.4%
31 Bulgaria19.7%
32 Croatia18.7%
33 Philippines16.4%
34 Chile13.4%

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

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 2.121595 X +5.598
Correlation coefficient (r)0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 118461.606804 X -13885.270
Correlation coefficient (r)0.783
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.613

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 21.098574 X +68.713
Correlation coefficient (r)0.701
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.491

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.630451 X +1.968
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.198416 X +10.001
Correlation coefficient (r)0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006