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Question: Looking around the world, do you agree that religions bring more conflict than peace?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark86.4%
2 Norway82.6%
3 Sweden79.2%
4 United Kingdom78.4%
5 New Zealand71.5%
6 Switzerland71.2%
7 Australia70.7%
8 Netherlands70.4%
9 Slovenia69.7%
10 Germany69.5%
11 Austria68.6%
12 Israel67.1%
13 France65.4%
13 Portugal65.4%
15 Canada63.3%
16 Japan 58.1%
17 Ireland56.0%
18 Czech Republic54.6%
19 Italy53.2%
20 Spain52.4%
21 Chile49.0%
22 Slovakia46.6%
23 Hungary45.5%
24 Poland41.2%
25 Latvia38.2%
26 United States35.3%

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

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 2.268992 X +5.333
Correlation coefficient (r)0.705
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.497

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 88482.826206 X -6922.080
Correlation coefficient (r)0.475
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.226

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 16.436900 X +70.367
Correlation coefficient (r)0.709
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.503

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 0.424586 X +1.350
Correlation coefficient (r)0.180
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.032

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -4.723076 X +12.603
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.233
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054