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Question: How important is a person's religion for getting ahead in life?
Choices: "Essential" "Very important" "Fairly important" "Not very important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Essential" "Very important"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 South Africa60.8%
2 Philippines53.4%
3 Argentina28.0%
4 Israel25.6%
5 Turkiye19.3%
6 China16.9%
7 Venezuela15.5%
8 Bulgaria12.5%
9 United States12.2%
10 Republic of Korea11.7%
10 Slovakia11.7%
12 Poland11.6%
13 Croatia11.3%
14 Chile10.9%
15 Austria9.9%
16 Hungary9.5%
17 Slovenia9.1%
17 Taiwan9.1%
19 Portugal8.9%
20 United Kingdom8.8%
21 Belgium8.5%
22 Ukraine8.1%
23 Czech Republic7.3%
23 Germany7.3%
25 Spain7.1%
26 Cyprus7.0%
27 Iceland6.0%
28 Denmark5.9%
28 Russian Federation5.9%
28 Switzerland5.9%
31 Italy5.4%
32 Finland5.3%
33 Australia5.2%
34 Lithuania5.0%
35 Sweden4.7%
36 New Zealand4.6%
37 France4.3%
38 Japan 3.8%
39 Estonia3.6%
39 Norway3.6%
41 Latvia2.5%

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

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -2.025057 X +6.684
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -82583.812537 X +45067.183
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.399
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.159

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -25.976139 X +81.247
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.595
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.354

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 2.167664 X +1.379
Correlation coefficient (r)0.646
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.417

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.907494 X +10.611
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.021
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000