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Question: Have you belonged to a sports, leisure or cultural group?
Choices: "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate" "Used to belong" "Never belonged"
Data: % of "Belong and actively participate" "Belong but don't participate"
Period:
Area:
26 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark54.7%
2 Netherlands50.7%
3 Iceland49.2%
4 Sweden45.4%
5 Norway45.3%
6 Switzerland 44.9%
7 Australia44.3%
8 Belgium42.6%
9 Germany42.3%
10 Finland41.8%
11 France40.6%
12 Austria39.0%
13 Slovenia33.8%
14 United Kingdom32.6%
15 Czech Republic29.4%
15 United States29.4%
17 Spain26.6%
18 Republic of Korea24.9%
19 Japan24.3%
20 Israel22.5%
21 Chile20.0%
22 Slovakia14.9%
23 Lithuania14.2%
24 Poland7.9%
25 Hungary7.0%
26 Turkiye5.5%

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

No data for 12 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 3.236805 X +5.725
Correlation coefficient (r)0.772
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.596

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 129616.757200 X +4644.595
Correlation coefficient (r)0.765
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.585

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 16.186793 X +75.221
Correlation coefficient (r)0.712
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.507

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 0.130454 X +1.569
Correlation coefficient (r)0.052
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data26
Regression equation
Y = 1.011614 X +10.317
Correlation coefficient (r)0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001