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Question: Please indicate which statement below comes closest to expressing what you believe about God.
Choices: "I don't believe in God" "I don't know whether there is a God and I don't believe there is any way to find out" "I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind" "I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others" "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Data: % of "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Period:
Area:
8 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States73.1%
2 Italy60.2%
3 United Kingdom34.1%
4 Germany32.9%
5 Republic of Korea31.6%
6 France30.6%
7 Sweden19.8%
8 Japan 12.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.393399 X +6.538
Correlation coefficient (r)0.157
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 19875.378614 X +40391.548
Correlation coefficient (r)0.331
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.110

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -8.286440 X +84.804
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.768
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.590

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = 0.045575 X +1.438
Correlation coefficient (r)0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data8
Regression equation
Y = -6.701380 X +16.894
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041