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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:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States78.3%
2 Italy69.6%
3 United Kingdom47.2%
4 Australia43.5%
5 Republic of Korea39.4%
6 Germany38.4%
7 France37.3%
8 Sweden24.9%
9 Japan 16.4%

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 = -0.001385 X +6.628
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.001
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 30624.091350 X +34811.538
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8.864910 X +85.824
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.714
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.510

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.063676 X +1.456
Correlation coefficient (r)0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.770632 X +13.278
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.192
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037