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Question: How willing would you be to accept cuts in your standard of living in order to protect the environment?
Choices: "Very willing" "Fairly willing" "Neither willing nor unwilling" "Fairly unwilling" "Very unwilling"
Data: % of "Very willing" "Fairly willing"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland57.2%
2 Austria50.6%
3 Mexico47.7%
4 Sweden44.8%
5 Finland42.3%
6 Japan 40.8%
7 Netherlands39.6%
8 Germany37.3%
8 Norway37.3%
10 Russian Federation36.7%
11 Ireland35.3%
12 Slovenia33.8%
13 New Zealand33.0%
14 Denmark32.8%
15 Philippines32.5%
16 Canada31.9%
17 Spain30.9%
18 Israel30.8%
19 United States29.4%
20 Chile27.6%
21 United Kingdom26.3%
22 Czech Republic21.0%
23 Portugal16.8%
24 Bulgaria12.1%
25 Latvia5.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.399173 X +5.927
Correlation coefficient (r)0.483
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.233

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 99680.952046 X +12338.873
Correlation coefficient (r)0.407
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 13.828195 X +74.713
Correlation coefficient (r)0.332
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.149496 X +1.718
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.351346 X +9.365
Correlation coefficient (r)0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001