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Question: These five diagrams show different types of society. Please read the descriptions and look at the diagrams and decide which you think best describes is the country today.
Type AType BType CType DType E
A small elite at the top, very few people in the middle and the great mass of people at the bottom.A society like a pyramid with a small elite at the top, more people in the middle, and most at the bottom.A pyramid except that just a few people are at the bottom.A society with most people in the middle.Many people near the top, and only a few near the bottom.

Data: % of Type B
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel55.8%
2 France53.6%
3 China51.4%
4 Chile48.0%
5 Estonia46.6%
6 United Kingdom41.9%
7 Spain41.2%
8 Italy41.0%
9 Philippines40.4%
10 Slovakia39.1%
11 United States38.9%
12 Japan 38.5%
13 Taiwan36.9%
14 Lithuania36.2%
14 Portugal36.2%
16 Argentina36.1%
17 Venezuela36.0%
18 Turkiye35.9%
19 Germany35.4%
20 Czech Republic35.1%
21 Republic of Korea35.0%
21 Russian Federation35.0%
23 Belgium34.5%
24 New Zealand33.0%
24 Poland33.0%
26 Hungary32.3%
27 South Africa31.8%
28 Slovenia31.5%
29 Australia29.5%
30 Croatia28.8%
31 Bulgaria27.2%
32 Austria26.5%
33 Switzerland24.8%
34 Cyprus24.0%
35 Finland23.7%
36 Sweden23.3%
37 Ukraine22.1%
38 Latvia20.2%
39 Iceland18.6%
40 Norway10.9%
41 Denmark10.7%

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 = -1.372085 X +6.912
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -92153.569622 X +66556.761
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.390345 X +78.697
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.027
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 0.804042 X +1.361
Correlation coefficient (r)0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -10.872134 X +14.158
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044