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Question: Do you think policies in (survey country) would improve, would get worse or would mostly stay the same if more elected officials were religious?
Choices: "Improve" "Get worse" "Mostly stay the same"
Data: % of "Improve"
Period:
Area:
23 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Nigeria68.8%
2 Indonesia58.9%
3 India54.9%
4 Kenya54.0%
5 South Africa43.1%
6 Brazil40.5%
7 Israel29.7%
8 Argentina29.4%
9 Mexico27.6%
10 Greece24.3%
11 Hungary22.0%
11 Italy22.0%
13 Poland20.7%
14 Netherlands18.0%
15 United Kingdom17.0%
16 Canada15.4%
17 Republic of Korea12.8%
18 Spain12.2%
19 Germany11.4%
20 France11.3%
21 Australia10.1%
22 Sweden6.7%
23 Japan 4.7%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 215 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2023.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -3.652579 X +7.187
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.761
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.579

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -93020.048963 X +55284.452
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.795
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.632

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -42.527066 X +87.950
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.914
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.835

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = 3.811650 X +0.831
Correlation coefficient (r)0.761
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.579

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -2.968400 X +10.253
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.107
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011