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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:
22 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Mexico91.2%
2 Chile90.6%
3 United States82.3%
4 Portugal81.9%
5 Ireland76.0%
6 Israel69.6%
7 Spain66.7%
8 Canada64.6%
9 Austria53.9%
10 New Zealand49.8%
11 Finland 49.0%
12 Switzerland48.0%
13 United Kingdom46.0%
14 Norway41.8%
15 Netherlands38.2%
16 Slovenia37.5%
17 Latvia36.0%
18 Denmark34.6%
19 Germany34.2%
20 Czech Republic26.1%
21 Sweden25.8%
22 Japan12.9%

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

No data for 16 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -0.441360 X +7.091
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -9461.747578 X +55293.774
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.079
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -5.325318 X +83.391
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.341
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.116

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = 0.225469 X +1.512
Correlation coefficient (r)0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data22
Regression equation
Y = -5.553404 X +12.682
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.407
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166