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Question: Do you agree that life does not serve any purpose?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States92.2%
2 Australia87.6%
3 Japan 87.1%
4 United Kingdom83.0%
5 France82.1%
6 Republic of Korea80.8%
7 Germany80.2%
8 Italy79.2%
9 Sweden63.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 1 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -1.803955 X +8.211
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.288
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.083

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 17097.852122 X +35492.323
Correlation coefficient (r)0.110
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.012

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -7.281318 X +87.865
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.278
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.073494 X +1.529
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 1.402469 X +13.064
Correlation coefficient (r)0.018
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000