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Question: Thinking about the future of (survey country), please tell me whether you feel generally optimistic or generally pessimistic about the following areas. How about our countryfs culture?
Choices: "Optimistic" "Pessimistic"
Data: % of "Optimistic"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan80.6%
2 Poland79.4%
3 Republic of Korea78.5%
4 Lithuania78.0%
5 Sweden 77.9%
6 Hungary77.4%
7 Netherlands75.5%
8 Canada75.2%
9 Slovakia74.3%
10 Germany74.0%
11 Greece72.6%
12 Czech Republic72.2%
13 Mexico72.0%
14 Australia69.5%
15 France68.8%
16 Italy67.6%
17 United Kingdom66.2%
18 Spain62.7%
19 United States57.5%
20 Turkiye56.5%
21 Israel54.4%

Note
Neither/ Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.494156 X +6.200
Correlation coefficient (r)0.068
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -55448.880476 X +76683.662
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.232
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.054

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -1.194056 X +80.376
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.023
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -3.088056 X +3.784
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.576
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.332

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 31.397795 X -12.672
Correlation coefficient (r)0.499
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.249