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Question: How religious are you?
Choices: "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious" "Neither religious nor non-religious" "Somewhat non-religious" "Very non-religious" "Extremely non-religious"
Data: % of "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland84.6%
2 United States76.5%
3 Portugal76.2%
4 Ireland69.5%
5 Italy64.9%
6 Austria62.7%
7 Spain56.8%
8 Slovakia54.6%
9 Netherlands54.3%
10 Canada47.0%
11 Chile46.7%
12 Hungary45.6%
13 Australia44.8%
14 New Zealand42.7%
15 United Kingdom40.8%
16 Norway39.8%
17 Switzerland39.3%
18 Slovenia38.2%
19 Latvia38.1%
20 Israel37.7%
21 Japan 32.0%
22 Germany30.6%
23 France29.3%
24 Denmark28.4%
25 Czech Republic25.8%
26 Sweden16.7%

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 = -0.937326 X +7.179
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -6563.634428 X +50941.140
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -4.786648 X +82.795
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.256
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -0.605753 X +1.898
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = -2.649154 X +10.926
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.162
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026