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Question: Overall, when you consider all the advantages and disadvantages of social media, would you say social media has been more of a good thing or more of a bad thing for democracy in (survey country)?
Choices: "Good thing" "Bad thing"
Data: % of "Good thing"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland 82.0%
2 Hungary71.9%
3 Japan71.4%
4 Israel70.8%
5 Sweden67.5%
6 Republic of Korea66.6%
7 Greece65.9%
8 Spain61.5%
9 Italy59.6%
10 Germany56.0%
11 United Kingdom51.2%
12 Canada49.8%
13 Belgium47.8%
14 France47.1%
15 Australia46.5%
16 Netherlands43.7%
17 United States33.4%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 21 countries.
Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2022. For the United States, Pew Research Center "American Trends Panel Wave 105" March 2022.

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.491133 X +7.513
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.407
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.166
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -97927.164928 X +100630.527
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.752
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.566
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -2.342239 X +82.509
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -0.225660 X +1.691
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -4.205641 X +12.416
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015