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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:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia82.1%
2 Lithuania74.9%
3 Republic of Korea74.5%
4 Hungary72.9%
5 Ukraine 71.6%
6 Croatia71.3%
7 Slovenia67.4%
8 Taiwan64.5%
9 Switzerland63.5%
10 Russian Federation63.4%
11 France63.3%
12 Finland59.3%
13 Japan59.2%
14 Estonia59.1%
15 Germany58.1%
16 Turkiye57.5%
17 Czech Republic54.8%
18 Slovakia52.7%
19 Bulgaria49.9%
20 Belgium48.4%
21 Austria48.2%
22 United States48.1%
23 Spain46.4%
24 Iceland46.2%
24 Sweden46.2%
26 Argentina46.0%
27 Portugal45.9%
28 Australia45.5%
29 China45.0%
30 Italy44.1%
31 Cyprus42.1%
32 Poland42.0%
33 United Kingdom40.0%
34 Norway39.9%
35 Chile37.9%
36 Denmark32.7%
37 Israel29.7%
38 New Zealand23.7%
39 Venezuela17.4%
40 South Africa10.1%
41 Philippines8.1%

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 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = -0.036074 X +6.455
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.008
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 1181.058797 X +34385.214
Correlation coefficient (r)0.009
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 4.251430 X +76.678
Correlation coefficient (r)0.164
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -1.278467 X +2.266
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.582
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.339

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 21.800253 X +2.302
Correlation coefficient (r)0.580
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.336