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Question: What is your personal attitude towards Buddhists?
Choices: "Very positive" "Somewhat positive" "Neither positive nor negative" "Somewhat negative" "Very negative"
Data: % of "Very positive" "Somewhat positive"
Period:
Area:
47 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Cambodia90.7%
2 Sri Lanka89.8%
3 Mongolia73.8%
4 Suriname73.6%
5 Thailand70.0%
6 Indonesia66.8%
7 Nepal65.1%
8 Singapore65.0%
9 Taiwan62.2%
10 Viet Nam60.2%
11 Ghana59.4%
12 Malaysia56.8%
13 Israel55.7%
14 Slovenia54.7%
15 Kenya52.8%
16 Russian Federation52.6%
17 Japan 51.0%
18 Iceland49.3%
19 New Zealand48.0%
20 Denmark47.8%
21 Republic of Korea47.6%
22 Norway47.3%
23 France47.1%
24 Switzerland45.4%
25 United Kingdom45.1%
25 United States45.1%
27 Sweden44.9%
28 Italy43.5%
29 Croatia41.9%
30 South Africa41.8%
31 Austria41.0%
32 Finland40.8%
33 Germany39.6%
34 Spain37.3%
35 Bulgaria36.9%
36 Georgia35.0%
37 Czech Republic34.4%
38 Malawi31.0%
39 Nigeria30.7%
40 Chile29.6%
41 Slovakia29.0%
42 Philippines26.8%
43 Hungary26.5%
44 Lithuania23.3%
45 Turkiye10.4%
46 Jordan5.7%
47 Algeria4.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 191 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -0.277619 X +6.162
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data47
Regression equation
Y = 299.171990 X +28252.437
Correlation coefficient (r)0.002
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -0.579571 X +75.908
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.015
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -0.374462 X +2.174
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = 8.441485 X +6.316
Correlation coefficient (r)0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078