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Question: Looking around the world, do you agree that religions bring more conflict than peace?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden79.2%
2 United Kingdom78.4%
3 Australia70.7%
4 Germany69.5%
5 France65.4%
6 Canada63.3%
7 Japan 58.1%
8 Italy53.2%
9 United States35.3%

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

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.174746 X +6.110
Correlation coefficient (r)0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -8695.926560 X +56929.817
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 7.262432 X +77.098
Correlation coefficient (r)0.493
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.243

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 0.292124 X +1.345
Correlation coefficient (r)0.221
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.049

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -5.988550 X +16.158
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.255
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065