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Question: Please indicate which statement below comes closest to expressing what you believe about God.
Choices: "I don't believe in God" "I don't know whether there is a God and I don't believe there is any way to find out" "I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind" "I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others" "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Data: % of "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye94.3%
2 Chile86.6%
3 United States73.1%
4 Israel66.0%
5 Italy60.2%
6 Spain51.5%
7 Lithuania47.3%
8 New Zealand44.5%
9 Hungary40.9%
9 Slovakia40.9%
11 Austria37.8%
12 Iceland37.7%
13 Slovenia36.9%
14 Finland34.5%
15 United Kingdom34.1%
16 Switzerland34.0%
17 Germany32.9%
18 Republic of Korea31.6%
19 France30.6%
20 Norway28.7%
21 Denmark23.5%
22 Czech Republic21.5%
23 Sweden 19.8%
24 Japan12.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -1.323006 X +7.292
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.436
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.190

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -36475.143355 X +61039.338
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.304
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -6.394647 X +83.280
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.463996 X +1.407
Correlation coefficient (r)0.248
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -7.812722 X +13.640
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.361
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.130