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Question: How religious are you?
Choices: "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious" "Neither religious nor non-religious" "Somewhat non-religious" "Very non-religious" "Extremely non-religious"
Data: % of "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious"
Period:
Area:
9 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States76.8%
2 Italy66.2%
3 United Kingdom46.1%
4 Republic of Korea44.8%
5 Germany39.6%
6 Australia39.5%
7 Japan 34.5%
8 France29.7%
9 Sweden18.8%

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 = -0.413221 X +6.918
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = 5819.910189 X +46911.906
Correlation coefficient (r)0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -7.348847 X +85.145
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.627
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.393

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -0.365889 X +1.630
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data9
Regression equation
Y = -4.215688 X +16.066
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.120
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014