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Question: What best describes you?
Choices: "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I follow a religion, but don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." "I don't follow a religion and don't consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Data: % of "I follow a religion and consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural." and "I don't follow a religion, but consider myself to be a spiritual person interested in the sacred or the supernatural."
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye67.8%
2 United States64.7%
3 Tanzania64.1%
4 Dominican Republic62.8%
5 Philippines62.5%
6 Kenya62.2%
7 Mexico61.1%
8 Uruguay58.6%
9 South Africa56.1%
10 Chile56.0%
11 New Zealand55.0%
12 Taiwan52.8%
13 Venezuela52.5%
14 Israel49.2%
15 Ukraine 47.9%
16 Australia47.2%
17 Croatia47.0%
18 Slovenia46.3%
19 Ireland46.2%
20 Japan45.1%
21 Sri Lanka45.0%
22 Slovakia43.6%
23 Italy40.7%
24 Latvia40.2%
25 Austria39.4%
26 Switzerland39.1%
27 Portugal38.9%
28 Cyprus38.2%
28 United Kingdom38.2%
30 Netherlands38.1%
31 Spain37.2%
32 Finland35.8%
33 Norway35.2%
34 Denmark35.0%
35 Hungary34.7%
35 Russian Federation34.7%
37 France30.9%
38 Sweden29.7%
39 Indonesia28.7%
40 Poland26.9%
41 Belgium25.5%
42 Republic of Korea24.3%
43 Czech Republic23.8%
44 Germany21.3%

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 = -3.156083 X +7.687
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.416
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.173

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -70139.489732 X +64499.101
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.338
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -18.037682 X +86.033
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.447
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.200

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 2.841734 X +0.551
Correlation coefficient (r)0.543
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.295

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -16.781763 X +19.564
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.324
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.105