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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 "Most people are better off in a free market economy, even though some people are rich and some are poor"?
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland83.6%
2 Republic of Korea82.7%
3 United States77.7%
4 Sweden74.8%
5 Israel74.7%
6 Germany74.1%
7 Hungary73.2%
8 United Kingdom72.8%
9 Australia72.7%
10 Czech Republic72.5%
11 Canada70.2%
12 Italy66.0%
13 Turkiye65.8%
14 Slovakia62.5%
15 Greece62.4%
16 Spain62.2%
17 Netherlands61.3%
18 France60.4%
19 Lithuania55.6%
20 Japan 45.7%
21 Mexico42.2%

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 = 0.676749 X +6.096
Correlation coefficient (r)0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 61226.824339 X -3879.584
Correlation coefficient (r)0.354
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.125

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 7.797813 X +74.281
Correlation coefficient (r)0.205
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.044039 X +1.562
Correlation coefficient (r)0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 9.210367 X +3.419
Correlation coefficient (r)0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041