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Question: Generally, how would you describe taxes in this country today for those with high incomes? Taxes are...
Choices: "much too high" "too high" "about right" "too low" "much too low"
Data: % of "too low" "much too low"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea74.9%
2 Hungary70.5%
3 Spain69.6%
4 Germany65.3%
5 Slovenia62.0%
6 Chile60.2%
7 Japan57.5%
8 Norway56.2%
9 Finland 55.6%
10 Belgium54.5%
11 Slovakia52.7%
12 Switzerland52.5%
13 United States52.0%
14 Latvia51.9%
15 Iceland50.4%
16 Sweden50.1%
17 New Zealand50.0%
18 Turkiye44.9%
19 Australia44.3%
20 France42.1%
21 Czech Republic40.6%
22 Lithuania39.5%
23 United Kingdom36.8%
24 Denmark36.4%
25 Israel31.8%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.875449 X +7.741
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -41165.176778 X +67152.324
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.186
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 2.580856 X +78.972
Correlation coefficient (r)0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.113471 X +2.727
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.644
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.415

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 11.405634 X +5.021
Correlation coefficient (r)0.294
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086