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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in health? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary95.6%
2 Iceland93.2%
3 Chile90.8%
4 Latvia90.7%
5 Spain89.1%
6 United Kingdom86.1%
7 Sweden 84.9%
8 Israel84.5%
9 New Zealand83.7%
10 Slovakia83.2%
11 Lithuania80.4%
12 Turkiye79.6%
13 Slovenia78.5%
14 Australia78.4%
15 Germany75.3%
16 Norway74.4%
17 Denmark73.6%
18 Czech Republic69.9%
19 United States67.3%
20 Belgium67.2%
21 Republic of Korea66.9%
22 Finland64.2%
23 France60.5%
24 Japan54.9%
25 Switzerland46.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.467434 X +7.097
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.094
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -72591.170804 X +101432.446
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.365
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.133

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -10.986943 X +88.750
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.577222 X +1.183
Correlation coefficient (r)0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -6.321651 X +15.815
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033