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Question: Generally speaking, do you think your country is better than most other countries?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 83.9%
2 Australia83.0%
3 United States81.2%
4 New Zealand78.1%
5 Canada76.5%
6 Ireland71.1%
7 Austria69.0%
8 Norway67.2%
9 United Kingdom55.6%
10 Sweden47.6%
11 Netherlands45.6%
12 Poland38.7%
13 Germany36.9%
14 Italy36.8%
15 Spain36.1%
16 Latvia32.2%
17 Slovenia27.8%
18 Hungary26.5%
19 Slovakia23.2%
20 Czech Republic21.9%

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

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.659841 X +6.368
Correlation coefficient (r)0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 74854.248666 X +8407.561
Correlation coefficient (r)0.649
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.421

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 8.339349 X +75.868
Correlation coefficient (r)0.528
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.279

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.015518 X +1.556
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.109982 X +9.111
Correlation coefficient (r)0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026