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Question: How religious are you?
Choices: "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious" "Neither religious nor non-religious" "Somewhat non-religious" "Very non-religious" "Extremely non-religious"
Data: % of "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland84.6%
2 Philippines81.8%
3 Cyprus81.6%
4 United States76.5%
5 Portugal76.2%
6 Ireland69.5%
7 Italy64.9%
8 Austria62.7%
9 Spain56.8%
10 Slovakia54.6%
11 Netherlands54.3%
12 Bulgaria51.4%
13 Canada47.0%
14 Chile46.7%
15 Russian Federation46.6%
16 Hungary45.6%
17 Australia44.8%
18 New Zealand42.7%
19 United Kingdom40.8%
20 Norway39.8%
21 Switzerland39.3%
22 Slovenia38.2%
23 Latvia38.1%
24 Israel37.7%
25 Japan 32.0%
26 Germany30.6%
27 France29.3%
28 Denmark28.4%
29 Czech Republic25.8%
30 Sweden16.7%

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 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.171368 X +7.198
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.406
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.165

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -25102.798684 X +56049.452
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.172
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -7.075597 X +83.019
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.293
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.176616 X +1.723
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.086
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -7.031046 X +12.996
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108