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Question: How interested would you say you personally are in politics?
Choices: "Very interested" "Fairly interested" "Somewhat interested" "Not very interested" "Not at all interested"
Average score (as "Very interested"=5 "Fairly interested"=4 "Somewhat interested"=3 "Not very interested"=2 "Not at all interested"=1)
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia3.44
2 Norway3.42
3 Sweden 3.30
3 United Kingdom3.30
5 Germany3.24
6 Iceland3.23
7 France3.21
7 Switzerland3.21
9 Denmark3.19
10 United States3.17
11 Belgium3.15
12 Israel3.13
13 Finland3.09
14 Japan2.87
14 Lithuania2.87
16 Latvia2.81
17 Spain2.75
18 Turkiye2.67
19 Czech Republic2.63
20 Republic of Korea2.59
21 Hungary2.56
22 Slovenia2.53
23 Slovakia2.45
24 Chile1.96

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.008337 X +3.752
Correlation coefficient (r)0.598
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.358

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 50375.385472 X -101182.585
Correlation coefficient (r)0.782
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.612

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.354491 X +70.754
Correlation coefficient (r)0.452
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.204

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.164068 X +1.055
Correlation coefficient (r)0.168
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.028

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -0.583889 X +12.712
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.049
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002