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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in education? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
35 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Suriname94.5%
2 Philippines94.0%
3 Georgia92.2%
4 Spain89.5%
5 Croatia89.2%
6 Thailand88.8%
7 Venezuela88.4%
8 Germany87.8%
8 South Africa87.8%
10 Chile86.6%
11 Israel86.3%
12 Turkiye83.8%
13 Latvia82.6%
14 India81.8%
15 Hungary81.7%
16 United States78.4%
17 New Zealand76.3%
18 Iceland74.4%
19 Australia72.0%
20 United Kingdom71.6%
21 Slovakia69.7%
22 Taiwan67.8%
23 Belgium67.7%
24 Slovenia67.1%
25 Sweden66.6%
26 Switzerland64.7%
27 Lithuania63.6%
28 Russian Federation60.6%
29 Japan 58.3%
30 Republic of Korea56.9%
31 Norway55.5%
32 France55.4%
33 Finland54.8%
34 Denmark54.4%
35 Czech Republic52.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 203 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -2.983378 X +8.642
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.487
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.237

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -102742.338747 X +111988.380
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.513
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.263

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -20.646506 X +93.156
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.484
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.234

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.500803 X +0.613
Correlation coefficient (r)0.477
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.228

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -8.809345 X +18.016
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.206
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042