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Question: Do you agree that life does not serve any purpose?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States92.2%
3 Japan87.1%
4 United Kingdom83.0%
5 France82.1%
7 Germany80.2%
8 Italy79.2%

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 = 0.036743 X +6.500
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 221473.430493 X -135698.690
Correlation coefficient (r)0.640
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.410

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -26.460202 X +103.768
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 1.201233 X +0.490
Correlation coefficient (r)0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 68.411155 X -48.129
Correlation coefficient (r)0.908
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.824