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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - This country should follow its own interests, even if this leads to conflicts with other nations.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye68.9%
2 Portugal63.8%
3 India63.5%
4 France62.4%
5 Spain60.2%
6 Mexico60.0%
7 Israel59.9%
8 Switzerland59.6%
9 Iceland58.7%
10 Russian Federation57.9%
11 Slovenia57.5%
12 Latvia57.0%
13 South Africa54.9%
14 Denmark53.2%
15 Czech Republic53.0%
15 Finland53.0%
17 Croatia50.8%
18 Republic of Korea50.5%
19 United Kingdom50.2%
20 Hungary49.5%
21 Georgia48.6%
22 Estonia48.3%
23 Belgium47.1%
24 United States46.1%
25 Slovakia44.3%
26 Taiwan43.6%
27 Ireland43.1%
28 Philippines40.2%
29 Lithuania37.8%
30 Germany35.3%
31 Sweden31.8%
32 Norway28.7%
33 Japan 22.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2013

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.882827 X +7.401
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -71435.267149 X +74422.809
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.274
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -10.657462 X +83.199
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.644445 X +1.382
Correlation coefficient (r)0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -5.820920 X +14.101
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015