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Question: About how often do you pray?
Choices: "Never" "Less than once a year" "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month" "2-3 times a month" "Nearly every week" "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Data: % of "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye85.4%
2 United States73.3%
3 Mexico67.1%
4 Ireland66.9%
5 Chile 66.6%
6 Poland65.9%
7 Slovakia56.5%
8 Italy54.5%
9 Portugal49.8%
10 Switzerland45.4%
11 Israel42.4%
12 Spain37.8%
13 United Kingdom35.6%
14 Republic of Korea34.2%
15 Finland33.0%
16 New Zealand32.5%
17 Austria31.7%
18 Netherlands31.1%
19 Australia30.1%
20 Japan29.7%
21 Germany29.2%
22 Latvia28.5%
23 Slovenia28.4%
24 Hungary27.5%
25 Belgium25.0%
26 France24.2%
27 Denmark19.8%
28 Norway17.6%
29 Czech Republic16.5%
30 Sweden14.9%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.507023 X +7.291
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.496
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.246

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -29192.110185 X +56497.515
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.653118 X +83.631
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.444
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.197

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.092747 X +1.566
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.079961 X +13.151
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.394
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.155