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Question: These five diagrams show different types of society. Please read the descriptions and look at the diagrams and decide which you think best describes is the country today.
Type AType BType CType DType E
A small elite at the top, very few people in the middle and the great mass of people at the bottom.A society like a pyramid with a small elite at the top, more people in the middle, and most at the bottom.A pyramid except that just a few people are at the bottom.A society with most people in the middle.Many people near the top, and only a few near the bottom.

Data: % of Type D
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway54.2%
2 Denmark53.2%
3 Iceland50.7%
4 Finland41.3%
5 Sweden 37.8%
6 Australia34.8%
7 Switzerland34.5%
8 Israel29.3%
9 New Zealand24.5%
10 Austria23.9%
11 Japan22.8%
12 Germany21.2%
13 Slovenia20.9%
14 United Kingdom18.2%
15 United States17.7%
16 Chile17.4%
17 Czech Republic16.7%
18 France14.1%
19 Italy11.6%
20 Lithuania3.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.406601 X +6.281
Correlation coefficient (r)0.776
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.602

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 119836.494336 X +19348.808
Correlation coefficient (r)0.732
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.536

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 10.307758 X +78.412
Correlation coefficient (r)0.555
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.308

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.430961 X +1.536
Correlation coefficient (r)0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.333996 X +11.362
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018