Tweet
Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the military and defence? 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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cyprus79.7%
2 Russian Federation74.0%
3 Bulgaria71.6%
4 Israel56.4%
5 Poland55.2%
6 Philippines53.9%
7 Latvia41.5%
8 Hungary32.4%
9 Australia26.8%
10 Slovenia25.4%
11 Ireland24.0%
12 Uruguay21.3%
13 United States18.6%
14 New Zealand17.2%
15 Spain15.4%
16 Switzerland13.7%
17 Czech Republic11.8%
18 Norway10.5%
19 Japan 9.7%
20 Canada8.2%
21 Germany7.3%
22 France7.2%
22 Italy7.2%
24 Syrian Arab Republic3.4%

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 214 countries.
Source
ISSP 1996

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -1.128709 X +6.887
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.544
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.296
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data23
Regression equation
Y = -54766.600814 X +59371.212
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.448
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.201
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -10.497190 X +81.791
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.502
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.252
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.196178 X +1.640
Correlation coefficient (r)0.099
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.302456 X +9.717
Correlation coefficient (r)0.015
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000