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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:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States82.3%
2 Canada64.6%
3 United Kingdom46.0%
4 Germany34.2%
5 Sweden25.8%
6 Japan 12.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.397768 X +6.573
Correlation coefficient (r)0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 45623.239694 X +32395.405
Correlation coefficient (r)0.828
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.686

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -8.910373 X +85.297
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.804
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.646

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.215493 X +1.438
Correlation coefficient (r)0.386
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.149

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 2.318801 X +9.741
Correlation coefficient (r)0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044