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Question: Looking around the world, do you agree that religions bring more conflict than peace?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland83.9%
2 Denmark83.5%
3 Norway81.6%
4 Sweden 79.8%
5 Netherlands78.1%
6 Australia75.2%
7 United Kingdom74.1%
8 Belgium71.7%
9 New Zealand71.6%
10 Germany71.3%
11 France70.3%
12 Finland68.8%
13 Slovenia68.3%
14 Italy64.8%
15 Israel63.4%
16 Czech Republic60.6%
17 United States60.5%
18 Spain59.4%
19 Portugal55.0%
20 Ireland54.9%
21 Austria52.9%
22 Japan51.5%
23 Turkiye48.6%
24 Poland47.3%
25 Chile46.8%
26 Hungary45.7%
27 Mexico44.1%
28 Republic of Korea43.7%
29 Slovakia42.3%
30 Latvia42.1%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 3.743882 X +4.404
Correlation coefficient (r)0.760
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.578

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 123748.612704 X -32257.356
Correlation coefficient (r)0.696
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.484

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 11.457299 X +73.470
Correlation coefficient (r)0.582
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.339

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.124706 X +1.510
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -2.460685 X +14.154
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.064
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004