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Question: How religious are you?
Choices: "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious" "Neither religious nor non-religious" "Somewhat non-religious" "Very non-religious" "Extremely non-religious"
Data: % of "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Kenya92.5%
2 Sri Lanka91.5%
3 Turkiye87.6%
4 Philippines86.9%
5 South Africa82.2%
6 Tanzania77.8%
7 Croatia77.1%
8 United States76.8%
9 Poland76.5%
10 Taiwan74.5%
11 Venezuela71.9%
12 Mexico69.9%
13 Dominican Republic69.2%
14 Cyprus68.8%
15 Portugal68.4%
16 Ireland68.3%
17 Indonesia66.2%
17 Italy66.2%
19 Ukraine 64.8%
20 Russian Federation62.2%
21 Slovakia61.5%
22 Chile57.4%
23 Belgium51.4%
24 Netherlands49.5%
25 Austria48.9%
26 United Kingdom46.1%
27 Republic of Korea44.8%
28 Spain43.4%
28 Switzerland43.4%
30 Israel42.8%
31 Finland40.7%
32 Germany39.6%
33 Australia39.5%
34 Slovenia38.7%
35 New Zealand37.4%
36 Hungary36.2%
36 Norway36.2%
38 Japan34.5%
39 Latvia33.7%
40 Uruguay33.2%
41 France29.7%
42 Denmark22.5%
43 Czech Republic19.4%
44 Sweden18.8%

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 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -3.212252 X +8.090
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -65494.216628 X +70177.713
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.512
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.262

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -15.283413 X +86.596
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.612
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.375

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.297202 X +1.075
Correlation coefficient (r)0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -10.547114 X +18.060
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108