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Question: Generally speaking, do you think your country is better than most other countries?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia82.6%
2 Canada79.6%
3 United States78.8%
4 Japan76.2%
5 New Zealand74.9%
6 Austria67.7%
7 Denmark67.6%
8 Finland67.2%
9 Norway61.9%
10 Chile 58.3%
11 Ireland55.7%
12 Israel50.4%
13 United Kingdom49.4%
14 Spain48.8%
15 Republic of Korea44.3%
16 Portugal43.9%
17 Netherlands42.8%
18 France41.8%
19 Sweden40.9%
20 Germany38.0%
21 Hungary33.6%
22 Poland32.8%
23 Slovenia30.0%
24 Czech Republic29.2%
25 Latvia27.9%
26 Switzerland25.5%
27 Slovakia20.2%

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

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.843486 X +6.337
Correlation coefficient (r)0.321
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.103

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 51345.047625 X +21855.291
Correlation coefficient (r)0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 7.411824 X +76.858
Correlation coefficient (r)0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.048929 X +1.616
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.113999 X +10.384
Correlation coefficient (r)0.006
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000