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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye94.9%
2 Chile90.4%
3 Mexico79.3%
4 United States78.3%
5 Poland76.4%
6 Israel75.9%
7 Portugal72.9%
8 Italy69.6%
9 Ireland67.5%
10 Slovakia59.7%
11 Spain59.5%
12 United Kingdom47.2%
13 Finland46.3%
13 New Zealand46.3%
15 Switzerland45.1%
16 Australia43.5%
17 Hungary42.3%
18 Austria41.0%
19 Slovenia40.7%
20 Republic of Korea39.4%
21 Germany38.4%
22 France37.3%
23 Norway37.0%
24 Latvia36.9%
25 Netherlands36.7%
26 Belgium34.4%
27 Denmark33.6%
28 Sweden24.9%
29 Czech Republic23.9%
30 Japan 16.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.078479 X +7.240
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.388
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -31617.572773 X +60995.002
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.252
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -7.152693 X +83.828
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.345500 X +1.426
Correlation coefficient (r)0.206
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.744401 X +14.904
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.519
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.269