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Question: Please tell me whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements. How about "Success in life is pretty much determined by forces outside our control"?
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea78.1%
2 Turkiye67.3%
3 Slovakia65.9%
4 Greece64.7%
5 Israel61.6%
6 Poland60.7%
7 Japan59.0%
8 Czech Republic 57.9%
9 Germany56.1%
10 Lithuania55.6%
10 Spain55.6%
12 France53.1%
13 Italy50.9%
14 Netherlands48.4%
15 Hungary48.3%
16 Mexico44.2%
17 United Kingdom43.6%
18 Australia41.3%
19 Sweden38.3%
20 Canada31.8%
21 United States29.0%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -2.490889 X +7.869
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.539
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.291

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -93248.204158 X +86670.740
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.611
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.373

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.082340 X +79.485
Correlation coefficient (r)0.002
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.374545 X +1.790
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.959266 X +10.125
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001