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Question: How interested would you say you personally are in politics?
Choices: "Very interested" "Fairly interested" "Not very interested" "Not at all interested"
Data: % of "Very interested" "Somewhat interested"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany69.1%
2 Japan 66.2%
3 Norway64.7%
4 Denmark62.9%
5 New Zealand61.3%
6 France58.8%
7 Australia58.7%
8 Israel58.2%
9 Austria57.6%
10 Republic of Korea55.5%
11 Canada55.4%
12 Ireland53.5%
13 Netherlands52.9%
14 United States51.3%
15 Belgium49.4%
16 Slovakia48.3%
17 Switzerland47.0%
18 Mexico46.5%
19 Portugal40.0%
20 Czech Republic36.3%
20 Slovenia36.3%
22 Finland34.5%
22 Hungary34.5%
24 Poland34.2%
25 Chile33.8%
26 Spain31.7%
27 Latvia31.6%

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

No data for 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 1.250646 X +6.130
Correlation coefficient (r)0.311
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.097

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 117756.380320 X -11607.977
Correlation coefficient (r)0.532
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.283

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 15.111966 X +72.736
Correlation coefficient (r)0.481
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.231

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.500513 X +1.352
Correlation coefficient (r)0.168
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -1.341174 X +11.101
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.045
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002