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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:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark79.6%
2 Norway78.9%
3 Sweden69.4%
4 Ukraine66.2%
5 Tanzania64.0%
6 New Zealand63.6%
7 Netherlands63.2%
8 Austria61.4%
9 Finland60.2%
10 Switzerland58.8%
11 Australia55.7%
11 Ireland55.7%
13 United Kingdom48.5%
14 Czech Republic45.2%
15 Belgium44.3%
15 United States44.3%
17 Germany43.1%
18 Hungary41.7%
18 Sri Lanka41.7%
20 Republic of Korea40.3%
21 Spain40.2%
22 Taiwan39.4%
23 Japan 38.2%
24 France35.5%
25 Israel32.5%
26 Slovakia28.4%
27 Venezuela27.9%
28 Russian Federation27.4%
29 South Africa27.1%
30 Poland26.8%
31 Philippines25.1%
32 Latvia24.7%
33 Uruguay22.8%
34 Mexico22.6%
35 Portugal22.4%
36 Slovenia21.7%
37 Indonesia20.5%
38 Dominican Republic20.1%
39 Italy19.8%
40 Kenya19.6%
41 Cyprus17.6%
42 Chile16.5%
43 Croatia14.8%
44 Turkiye6.3%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = 1.792753 X +5.594
Correlation coefficient (r)0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = 91476.696647 X -1674.541
Correlation coefficient (r)0.635
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.403

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 12.077577 X +72.558
Correlation coefficient (r)0.371
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -0.134532 X +1.844
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 4.862828 X +8.273
Correlation coefficient (r)0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031