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Question: Should religious extremists be allowed to hold public meetings?
Choices: "Should definitely be allowed" "Should probably be allowed" "Should probably not be allowed" "Should definitely not be allowed"
Data: % of "Should definitely be allowed" "Should probably be allowed"
Period:
Area:
37 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States73.4%
2 Israel66.1%
3 Philippines58.7%
4 New Zealand57.4%
5 Cyprus51.8%
6 Finland51.6%
7 South Africa48.0%
8 Uruguay44.5%
9 Ireland41.1%
10 Venezuela40.4%
11 Canada39.9%
12 Mexico38.5%
13 United Kingdom36.0%
14 Sweden35.1%
15 Slovenia34.8%
16 Norway33.9%
17 Denmark32.8%
18 Australia28.3%
19 Poland26.1%
20 Taiwan25.4%
21 Spain24.2%
22 Czech Republic20.3%
22 France20.3%
24 Republic of Korea20.0%
25 Chile19.7%
26 Switzerland19.6%
27 Hungary18.8%
28 Netherlands17.6%
28 Slovakia17.6%
30 Portugal14.2%
31 Latvia12.4%
32 Austria9.1%
33 Russian Federation9.0%
34 Germany7.6%
35 Belgium7.2%
36 Japan 4.9%
37 Bulgaria2.4%

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

No data for 201 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 0.798738 X +6.348
Correlation coefficient (r)0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 22224.941438 X +33394.218
Correlation coefficient (r)0.152
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -2.780972 X +79.406
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = 1.065066 X +1.335
Correlation coefficient (r)0.488
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.238

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data36
Regression equation
Y = -3.426619 X +11.569
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015