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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark81.7%
2 Iceland73.7%
3 Sweden73.3%
4 India72.7%
5 Finland69.4%
6 Switzerland66.2%
7 New Zealand65.3%
8 Germany58.5%
9 Czech Republic58.4%
10 Austria58.1%
11 Australia57.9%
12 United Kingdom56.4%
13 China54.6%
14 Spain53.1%
15 Mexico48.0%
16 Thailand47.8%
17 Hungary46.7%
18 Lithuania44.9%
19 Israel44.1%
20 Slovakia43.2%
21 United States40.9%
22 France40.5%
23 Croatia40.4%
24 Japan 35.1%
25 Russian Federation34.7%
26 Slovenia33.6%
27 Taiwan32.4%
28 Philippines31.4%
29 South Africa29.8%
30 Suriname20.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 2017

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 1.954989 X +5.542
Correlation coefficient (r)0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 86385.160738 X -7744.147
Correlation coefficient (r)0.542
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.294

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 18.262412 X +68.407
Correlation coefficient (r)0.473
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.224

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -0.799860 X +2.136
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.288
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.083

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = -13.622925 X +18.350
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143