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Question: Please indicate which statement below comes closest to expressing what you believe about God.
Choices: "I don't believe in God" "I don't know whether there is a God and I don't believe there is any way to find out" "I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind" "I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others" "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Data: % of "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States73.1%
2 Italy60.2%
3 United Kingdom34.1%
4 Germany32.9%
6 France 30.6%
8 Japan12.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.486862 X +6.333
Correlation coefficient (r)0.384
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 52607.632158 X +28924.004
Correlation coefficient (r)0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -7.435165 X +84.566
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.712
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.507

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.169672 X +1.430
Correlation coefficient (r)0.169
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.389161 X +9.155
Correlation coefficient (r)0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001