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Question: Overall, when you consider all the advantages and disadvantages of social media, would you say social media has been more of a good thing or more of a bad thing for democracy in (survey country)?
Choices: "Good thing" "Bad thing"
Data: % of "Good thing"
Period:
Area:
10 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan71.4%
2 Sweden67.5%
3 Republic of Korea66.6%
4 Italy59.6%
5 Germany56.0%
6 United Kingdom51.2%
7 Canada49.8%
8 France47.1%
9 Australia 46.5%
10 United States33.4%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.
Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2022. For the United States, Pew Research Center "American Trends Panel Wave 105" March 2022.

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -1.284273 X +7.360
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -90665.874538 X +98715.232
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.734
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.539
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 15.177833 X +73.666
Correlation coefficient (r)0.770
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.593
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -1.459713 X +2.281
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.574
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.329
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 6.027280 X +7.790
Correlation coefficient (r)0.153
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023