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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - To get all the way to the top in this country today, you have to be corrupt.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ukraine62.3%
2 Russian Federation58.7%
3 Turkiye57.9%
4 Croatia55.3%
5 Republic of Korea51.8%
6 Bulgaria51.6%
7 Lithuania50.9%
8 Slovenia48.1%
9 Hungary44.1%
10 France40.1%
11 Slovakia39.5%
12 Latvia39.2%
13 Israel38.5%
14 Poland37.8%
15 Austria37.6%
16 Taiwan34.2%
17 Portugal33.2%
18 Argentina33.0%
19 China32.5%
19 Venezuela32.5%
21 Italy30.9%
22 Czech Republic29.5%
22 Germany29.5%
24 South Africa29.4%
25 Iceland29.2%
26 Estonia27.2%
27 Spain25.7%
28 Belgium23.1%
29 Japan 20.2%
30 Switzerland20.1%
31 Chile19.9%
32 Cyprus17.7%
33 United Kingdom16.3%
34 Australia15.8%
35 United States15.4%
36 Finland13.9%
37 Denmark8.8%
38 Sweden8.5%
39 Norway5.5%
40 New Zealand4.2%
41 Philippines3.2%

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 = -2.508886 X +7.229
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.589
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.347

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -82375.675914 X +61098.356
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.531
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.282

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -12.729962 X +82.172
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.466024 X +1.776
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 9.731735 X +7.492
Correlation coefficient (r)0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088