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Question: Generally speaking, do you think your country is better than most other countries?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Venezuela84.4%
2 Australia82.6%
3 Canada79.6%
4 United States78.8%
5 Japan 76.2%
6 New Zealand74.9%
7 South Africa70.5%
8 Austria67.7%
9 Denmark67.6%
10 Finland67.2%
11 Norway61.9%
12 Taiwan61.6%
13 Chile58.3%
14 Ireland55.7%
15 Philippines54.5%
16 Israel50.4%
17 Uruguay49.8%
18 United Kingdom49.4%
19 Russian Federation48.9%
20 Spain48.8%
21 Bulgaria44.3%
21 Republic of Korea44.3%
23 Portugal43.9%
24 Netherlands42.8%
25 France41.8%
26 Sweden40.9%
27 Germany38.0%
28 Hungary33.6%
29 Poland32.8%
30 Slovenia30.0%
31 Czech Republic29.2%
32 Latvia27.9%
33 Switzerland25.5%
34 Slovakia20.2%

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 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.240504 X +6.465
Correlation coefficient (r)0.073
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 25475.373346 X +27498.392
Correlation coefficient (r)0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.001207 X +78.120
Correlation coefficient (r)0.034
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.314572 X +1.498
Correlation coefficient (r)0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.602713 X +11.132
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000