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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 = 96061.862487 X +5479.843
Correlation coefficient (r)0.740
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.548

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 6.369414 X +78.022
Correlation coefficient (r)0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.225265 X +1.632
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

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