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Question: Generally speaking, would you say that people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?
Choices: "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted" "You usually can't be too careful in dealing with people" "You almost always can't be too careful in dealing with people"
Data: % of "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark79.6%
2 Norway78.9%
3 Sweden69.4%
4 New Zealand63.6%
5 Netherlands63.2%
6 Austria61.4%
7 Finland60.2%
8 Switzerland58.8%
9 Australia55.7%
9 Ireland55.7%
11 United Kingdom48.5%
12 Czech Republic45.2%
13 Belgium44.3%
13 United States44.3%
15 Germany43.1%
16 Hungary41.7%
17 Republic of Korea40.3%
18 Spain40.2%
19 Japan 38.2%
20 France35.5%
21 Israel32.5%
22 Slovakia28.4%
23 Poland26.8%
24 Latvia24.7%
25 Mexico22.6%
26 Portugal22.4%
27 Slovenia21.7%
28 Italy19.8%
29 Chile16.5%
30 Turkiye6.3%

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 = 2.316802 X +5.692
Correlation coefficient (r)0.765
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.585

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 103753.655903 X +213.187
Correlation coefficient (r)0.759
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.576

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 9.431984 X +76.112
Correlation coefficient (r)0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.059629 X +1.629
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.033
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 4.752339 X +7.873
Correlation coefficient (r)0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054