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Question: Please tell me whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements. How about "Success in life is pretty much determined by forces outside our control"?
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
10 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Japan59.0%
3 Germany56.1%
4 France 53.1%
5 Italy50.9%
6 United Kingdom43.6%
9 Canada31.8%
10 United States29.0%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -1.642856 X +7.343
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.669
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.448

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -101679.203675 X +97724.461
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.779
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.607

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 12.754305 X +75.620
Correlation coefficient (r)0.718
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.516

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.397433 X +1.658
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.222
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -10.911475 X +14.503
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.383
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.147