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Question: How interested would you say you personally are in politics?
Choices: "Very interested" "Fairly interested" "Not very interested" "Not at all interested"
Data: % of "Very interested" "Fairly interested"
Period:
Area:
21 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany70.1%
2 Japan68.4%
3 Australia58.8%
4 France56.6%
5 Austria56.2%
6 New Zealand51.0%
7 United States50.2%
8 Israel47.5%
9 Ireland43.6%
10 Switzerland 42.8%
11 Belgium41.3%
12 Norway37.9%
13 Mexico36.2%
13 Republic of Korea36.2%
15 Finland31.7%
16 Czech Republic30.5%
17 Slovakia29.4%
18 Hungary28.9%
19 Latvia25.0%
20 Poland14.3%
21 Chile12.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 17 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.555496 X +6.491
Correlation coefficient (r)0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 71241.282688 X +17614.764
Correlation coefficient (r)0.393
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.154

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 14.097526 X +73.887
Correlation coefficient (r)0.538
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.289

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = 0.316249 X +1.496
Correlation coefficient (r)0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data21
Regression equation
Y = -1.143665 X +11.339
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003