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Question: Do you agree or disagree...? - People in wealthy countries should make an additional tax contribution to help people in poor countries.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile78.2%
2 Spain76.6%
3 Slovenia73.9%
4 Portugal61.8%
5 Poland55.4%
6 Slovakia49.0%
7 United Kingdom47.4%
8 France44.2%
9 Czech Republic43.4%
10 Germany42.1%
11 Australia41.1%
12 Israel40.5%
13 Sweden39.7%
14 Norway38.9%
15 Austria37.8%
16 United States36.5%
17 Canada33.5%
18 Hungary33.2%
19 New Zealand32.4%
20 Latvia26.9%
21 Japan 26.1%

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

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 1999

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.535683 X +6.914
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -57039.891790 X +68293.591
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.389
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 1.056637 X +79.632
Correlation coefficient (r)0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -0.419457 X +1.816
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -8.006365 X +13.736
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.434
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.188