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Question: How successful do you think the government is nowadays in providing a decent standard of living for the old?
Choices: "Very successful" "Quite successful" "Neither successful nor unsuccessful" "Quite unsuccessful" "Very unsuccessful"
Data: % of "Very successful" "Quite successful"
Period:
Area:
15 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland57.2%
2 Turkiye49.3%
3 New Zealand48.0%
4 United Kingdom40.2%
5 Australia38.3%
6 Denmark36.8%
7 Republic of Korea33.6%
8 Finland25.8%
8 Sweden 25.8%
10 Japan25.3%
11 Czech Republic25.2%
12 France18.1%
13 Iceland9.9%
14 Lithuania8.4%
15 Latvia6.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 23 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -0.655247 X +6.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.140
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.020

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 44973.394305 X +35077.346
Correlation coefficient (r)0.298
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.089

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 9.083752 X +78.367
Correlation coefficient (r)0.493
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.243

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 0.251661 X +1.412
Correlation coefficient (r)0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = -16.707046 X +16.585
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.534
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.285