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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:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 India78.5%
2 Philippines76.6%
3 Turkiye67.7%
4 Georgia63.5%
5 Suriname61.4%
6 South Africa53.2%
7 Hungary50.1%
8 Latvia44.7%
9 Norway44.3%
9 United States44.3%
11 Israel44.1%
12 Croatia42.7%
12 Sweden42.7%
12 United Kingdom42.7%
15 Venezuela42.0%
16 Russian Federation40.2%
17 Republic of Korea39.5%
18 Thailand37.8%
19 Taiwan35.4%
20 Slovenia34.8%
21 Finland32.1%
22 Slovakia30.6%
23 Czech Republic30.2%
24 Australia29.7%
25 Germany28.6%
26 Lithuania28.0%
27 Japan 27.3%
28 France27.2%
29 Chile21.3%
30 Belgium19.9%
31 New Zealand19.5%
32 Spain17.8%
33 Denmark12.7%
34 Switzerland10.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -3.237700 X +7.644
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.674
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.454

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -80157.810263 X +65585.797
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.510
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.260

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -22.860202 X +86.509
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.670
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.449

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.373728 X +1.194
Correlation coefficient (r)0.539
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.291

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.316271 X +10.943
Correlation coefficient (r)0.038
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001