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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:
16 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Ireland83.4%
2 United States81.2%
3 Poland78.5%
4 Italy73.8%
5 Spain69.6%
6 Canada64.5%
7 Israel58.2%
8 Australia53.2%
9 New Zealand50.3%
10 United Kingdom48.7%
11 Norway45.7%
12 Slovenia39.3%
13 Netherlands37.7%
14 Germany30.9%
15 Czech Republic25.8%
16 Japan 17.8%

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

No data for 22 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -0.100740 X +6.853
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 31936.367204 X +34735.897
Correlation coefficient (r)0.253
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.064

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -2.942824 X +82.804
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -0.100511 X +1.679
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -3.079043 X +10.989
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045