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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark81.4%
2 Norway75.4%
3 Sweden73.7%
4 Iceland69.0%
5 Netherlands65.7%
6 Switzerland64.9%
7 Finland63.1%
8 Australia60.8%
9 Austria60.0%
10 India58.1%
11 Czech Republic56.0%
12 Germany52.1%
13 Republic of Korea50.2%
14 United Kingdom50.1%
15 Spain49.5%
16 Belgium41.8%
17 Hungary40.7%
18 United States37.5%
19 Israel37.4%
20 France34.0%
21 Japan 33.9%
22 Slovakia32.5%
23 Taiwan31.7%
24 Slovenia29.9%
25 Russian Federation29.0%
26 South Africa27.8%
27 Lithuania24.2%
28 Philippines21.7%
29 Poland20.2%
30 Chile19.0%
31 Croatia17.0%
32 Turkiye14.6%
33 Georgia12.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.383815 X +5.472
Correlation coefficient (r)0.576
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.332

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 98447.069655 X -3802.963
Correlation coefficient (r)0.733
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.537

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 14.912249 X +71.803
Correlation coefficient (r)0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.412098 X +1.875
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.195
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.309298 X +11.257
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000