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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 D
Period:
Area:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway54.2%
2 Denmark53.2%
3 Iceland50.7%
4 Finland41.3%
5 Sweden37.8%
6 Australia34.8%
7 Switzerland34.5%
8 Israel29.3%
9 New Zealand24.5%
10 Austria23.9%
11 Japan 22.8%
12 Germany21.2%
13 Slovenia20.9%
14 Taiwan18.5%
15 United Kingdom18.2%
16 United States17.7%
17 Chile17.4%
18 Czech Republic16.7%
19 France14.1%
20 South Africa11.7%
21 Italy11.6%
22 Thailand10.9%
23 Philippines9.6%
24 Russian Federation7.9%
25 Suriname7.6%
26 Venezuela5.0%
27 Lithuania3.9%
28 Croatia3.2%
29 Bulgaria2.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 3.617419 X +5.828
Correlation coefficient (r)0.829
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.687

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 152095.494789 X +6874.041
Correlation coefficient (r)0.826
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.682

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 24.515947 X +73.013
Correlation coefficient (r)0.646
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.417

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -0.243879 X +1.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.087
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -4.889550 X +12.133
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016