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Question: Do you think people with high incomes should pay a larger % of their income in taxes than those with low incomes, the same share, or a smaller share?
Choices: "Much larger share" "Larger" "The same share" "Smaller" "Much smaller share"
Data: % of "Much larger share" "Larger"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea93.6%
2 Italy92.6%
3 Japan88.0%
4 Spain86.5%
5 Slovenia86.3%
6 Switzerland85.5%
7 France85.4%
8 Portugal84.6%
9 Lithuania84.5%
10 Germany84.2%
11 Finland 83.5%
12 Latvia79.5%
13 Hungary78.7%
14 Austria78.0%
15 United Kingdom77.0%
16 Turkiye76.5%
17 Iceland75.4%
18 Australia72.4%
19 Sweden72.3%
20 Estonia70.7%
21 Slovakia70.5%
22 Chile69.2%
23 Norway69.0%
24 Belgium68.8%
25 Poland67.5%
26 Denmark67.2%
27 Czech Republic63.8%
28 United States63.3%
29 Israel59.1%
30 New Zealand57.7%

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

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.093137 X +8.308
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.314
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -49704.358267 X +81296.199
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 8.052191 X +74.027
Correlation coefficient (r)0.228
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.136288 X +3.222
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.598
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.358

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 8.077649 X +4.406
Correlation coefficient (r)0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035