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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Economic progress in the country will slow down unless we look after the environment better
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
6 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada54.1%
2 Sweden51.7%
3 United States50.8%
4 Germany47.0%
5 Japan 46.3%
6 United Kingdom45.5%

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

No data for 4 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 6.675165 X +3.614
Correlation coefficient (r)0.512
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.262

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 175589.423184 X -33335.693
Correlation coefficient (r)0.585
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.342

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = -14.894567 X +88.633
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.215
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.046

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 0.511547 X +1.270
Correlation coefficient (r)0.138
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data6
Regression equation
Y = 28.561865 X -1.045
Correlation coefficient (r)0.326
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.106