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Question: Generally, how would you describe taxes in this country today for those with high incomes? Taxes are...
Choices: "much too high" "too high" "about right" "too low" "much too low"
Data: % of "too low" "much too low"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia82.1%
2 Lithuania74.9%
3 Republic of Korea74.5%
4 Hungary72.9%
5 Slovenia67.4%
6 Switzerland63.5%
7 France63.3%
8 Finland59.3%
9 Japan59.2%
10 Estonia59.1%
11 Germany58.1%
12 Turkiye57.5%
13 Czech Republic54.8%
14 Slovakia52.7%
15 Belgium48.4%
16 Austria48.2%
17 United States48.1%
18 Spain 46.4%
19 Iceland46.2%
19 Sweden46.2%
21 Portugal45.9%
22 Australia45.5%
23 Italy44.1%
24 Poland42.0%
25 United Kingdom40.0%
26 Norway39.9%
27 Chile37.9%
28 Denmark32.7%
29 Israel29.7%
30 New Zealand23.7%

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

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.835251 X +7.676
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.385
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.148

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -49239.939465 X +68629.504
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -7.769210 X +84.551
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.398
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.766613 X +1.971
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.328
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 26.986187 X -0.571
Correlation coefficient (r)0.684
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.468