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Question: Is it just or unjust ? right or wrong ? that people with higher incomes can buy better health care than people with lower incomes?
Choices: "Very just, definitely right" "Somewhat just, right" "Neither just nor unjust, mixed feelings" "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Data: % of "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France83.7%
2 Iceland81.4%
3 Turkiye80.7%
4 Belgium79.7%
5 Slovenia75.1%
6 Hungary72.8%
7 Germany72.5%
8 Italy71.3%
9 Latvia70.7%
10 Austria69.9%
11 Sweden69.1%
12 Portugal68.1%
13 Poland62.7%
14 Chile62.3%
15 Switzerland 60.1%
16 Norway58.6%
17 Slovakia58.1%
18 Denmark57.7%
19 Spain57.5%
20 Estonia56.9%
21 Finland56.1%
22 Lithuania55.8%
23 Republic of Korea55.6%
24 Czech Republic55.2%
25 Australia47.6%
26 United States46.4%
27 Israel46.0%
28 Japan45.7%
29 New Zealand37.0%
30 United Kingdom33.4%

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

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.984931 X +7.293
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.220
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -30930.968381 X +62384.050
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.171
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.500232 X +81.717
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.063817 X +1.629
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.024
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.817343 X +11.695
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.056
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003