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Question: How religious are you?
Choices: "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious" "Neither religious nor non-religious" "Somewhat non-religious" "Very non-religious" "Extremely non-religious"
Data: % of "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States76.8%
2 Italy66.2%
3 United Kingdom46.1%
4 Republic of Korea44.8%
5 Germany39.6%
6 Australia39.5%
7 Japan34.5%
8 France 29.7%
9 Sweden18.8%

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 data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.726490 X +6.947
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.302
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 20950.442763 X +39033.916
Correlation coefficient (r)0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -9.007440 X +85.897
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.661
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.437

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.357160 X +1.642
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.949652 X +12.042
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.071
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005