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Question: Generally speaking, do you think your country is better than most other countries?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
27 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Australia82.6%
2 Canada79.6%
3 United States78.8%
4 Japan76.2%
5 New Zealand74.9%
6 Austria67.7%
7 Denmark67.6%
8 Finland67.2%
9 Norway61.9%
10 Chile58.3%
11 Ireland55.7%
12 Israel50.4%
13 United Kingdom49.4%
14 Spain48.8%
15 Republic of Korea44.3%
16 Portugal43.9%
17 Netherlands42.8%
18 France41.8%
19 Sweden40.9%
20 Germany38.0%
21 Hungary33.6%
22 Poland32.8%
23 Slovenia 30.0%
24 Czech Republic29.2%
25 Latvia27.9%
26 Switzerland25.5%
27 Slovakia20.2%

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 11 countries.

Source
ISSP 2003

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.950507 X +6.358
Correlation coefficient (r)0.315
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 47208.153176 X +23505.270
Correlation coefficient (r)0.378
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.143

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 6.201685 X +77.705
Correlation coefficient (r)0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -0.055574 X +1.587
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.032
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -4.338695 X +15.457
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.177
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031