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Question: What best describes you?
Choices: "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I follow a religion, but don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion and don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Data: % of "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." and "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye67.8%
2 United States64.7%
3 Mexico61.1%
4 Chile56.0%
5 New Zealand55.0%
6 Israel49.2%
7 Australia47.2%
8 Slovenia46.3%
9 Ireland46.2%
10 Japan 45.1%
11 Slovakia43.6%
12 Italy40.7%
13 Latvia40.2%
14 Austria39.4%
15 Switzerland39.1%
16 Portugal38.9%
17 United Kingdom38.2%
18 Netherlands38.1%
19 Spain37.2%
20 Finland35.8%
21 Norway35.2%
22 Denmark35.0%
23 Hungary34.7%
24 France30.9%
25 Sweden29.7%
26 Poland26.9%
27 Belgium25.5%
28 Republic of Korea24.3%
29 Czech Republic23.8%
30 Germany21.3%

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 = -1.208214 X +7.178
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.251
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.063

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -16952.830712 X +51687.730
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.784492 X +84.136
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.936964 X +1.223
Correlation coefficient (r)0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -10.488958 X +14.171
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.323
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104