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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "People like me don't have any say about what the government does"?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia76.0%
2 Czech Republic75.7%
3 Slovenia75.3%
4 Lithuania70.6%
5 Hungary68.4%
6 Slovakia65.9%
7 Belgium64.5%
8 Spain63.0%
9 Finland62.5%
10 Germany61.4%
11 Denmark60.5%
12 Australia59.2%
13 United Kingdom54.6%
14 Chile54.3%
15 Israel52.6%
16 Iceland50.6%
17 Sweden49.1%
18 United States48.4%
19 New Zealand48.1%
20 Turkiye45.5%
21 Norway37.6%
22 Switzerland32.4%
23 Republic of Korea30.9%
24 France26.9%
25 Japan 16.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.428358 X +6.506
Correlation coefficient (r)0.111
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -55189.726367 X +75511.012
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -12.551864 X +87.094
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.567
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.321

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.286289 X +1.471
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.608130 X +10.094
Correlation coefficient (r)0.059
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003