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Question: Looking around the world, do you agree that religions bring more conflict than peace?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark86.4%
2 Norway82.6%
3 Sweden79.2%
4 United Kingdom78.4%
5 New Zealand71.5%
6 Switzerland71.2%
7 Australia70.7%
8 Netherlands70.4%
9 Slovenia69.7%
10 Germany69.5%
11 Austria68.6%
12 Israel67.1%
13 France65.4%
13 Portugal65.4%
15 Canada63.3%
16 Cyprus60.9%
17 Japan 58.1%
18 Ireland56.0%
19 Bulgaria54.8%
20 Czech Republic54.6%
21 Italy53.2%
22 Spain52.4%
23 Chile49.0%
24 Slovakia46.6%
25 Hungary45.5%
26 Poland41.2%
27 Latvia38.2%
28 United States35.3%
29 Russian Federation35.2%
30 Philippines34.0%

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

No data for 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 2.509503 X +5.117
Correlation coefficient (r)0.699
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.489

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 102008.922653 X -17391.370
Correlation coefficient (r)0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 22.546566 X +66.031
Correlation coefficient (r)0.751
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.564

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.099629 X +1.696
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.264826 X +12.665
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039