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Question: Do you agree that life is meaningful to you only because God exists?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States46.0%
2 Italy40.7%
3 United Kingdom24.2%
4 France 19.9%
7 Germany18.1%
8 Japan11.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.580131 X +6.376
Correlation coefficient (r)0.283
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 75361.302435 X +30143.699
Correlation coefficient (r)0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -10.450595 X +84.340
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.620
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.384

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.164575 X +1.454
Correlation coefficient (r)0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -0.190430 X +9.364
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000