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Question: What best describes you?
Choices: "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I follow a religion, but don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion and don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Data: % of "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." and "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States66.2%
2 Turkiye63.3%
3 Chile57.4%
4 New Zealand52.0%
5 Slovenia43.6%
6 Italy42.4%
7 Israel42.0%
8 Finland41.2%
9 Japan38.7%
10 Switzerland38.5%
11 Iceland38.4%
12 Austria37.8%
13 United Kingdom35.7%
14 Czech Republic34.3%
14 France34.3%
16 Spain33.3%
17 Lithuania31.4%
17 Norway31.4%
19 Slovakia30.6%
20 Denmark30.4%
21 Germany28.8%
22 Sweden 26.3%
23 Hungary25.1%
24 Republic of Korea23.1%

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 = -1.266860 X +7.218
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -12172.368143 X +50213.645
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -5.504546 X +82.683
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.192
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.832147 X +1.283
Correlation coefficient (r)0.247
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -11.076282 X +14.589
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.284
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081