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Question: When it comes to each of the following areas, do you think the United States is the best, above average, average, below average, or the worst? How about the United Statesf...? - Standard of living
Choices: "The best" "Above average" "Average" "Below average" "The worst"
Data: % of "Below average" "The worst"
Period:
Area:
15 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden50.2%
2 Netherlands47.9%
3 Australia41.2%
4 Belgium35.9%
5 New Zealand32.2%
6 Germany30.5%
7 Canada29.0%
8 France25.2%
9 United Kingdom 21.4%
10 Greece16.7%
11 United States15.9%
12 Japan15.8%
13 Spain15.5%
14 Italy14.6%
15 Republic of Korea8.9%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 23 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2021. For the United States, "American Trends Panel Wave 82" February 2-7, 2021.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 3.081845 X +5.852
Correlation coefficient (r)0.893
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.797

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 63385.511817 X +29363.366
Correlation coefficient (r)0.556
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.309

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 1.906828 X +81.424
Correlation coefficient (r)0.126
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 1.338410 X +1.124
Correlation coefficient (r)0.661
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.437

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data15
Regression equation
Y = 0.905131 X +9.985
Correlation coefficient (r)0.026
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001