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Question: How interested would you say you personally are in politics?
Choices: "Very interested" "Fairly interested" "Somewhat interested" "Not very interested" "Not at all interested"
Average score (as "Very interested"=5 "Fairly interested"=4 "Somewhat interested"=3 "Not very interested"=2 "Not at all interested"=1)
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines3.65
2 India3.49
3 Australia3.44
4 Norway3.42
5 Sweden3.30
5 United Kingdom3.30
7 Germany3.24
8 Iceland3.23
9 France3.21
9 Switzerland3.21
11 Denmark3.19
12 United States3.17
13 Belgium3.15
14 Israel3.13
15 Finland3.09
16 Venezuela3.02
17 Thailand2.98
18 Japan2.87
18 Lithuania2.87
20 Latvia2.81
21 Spain2.75
22 Turkiye2.67
23 South Africa2.66
24 Czech Republic2.63
25 Republic of Korea2.59
26 Hungary2.56
27 Slovenia2.53
28 Croatia2.52
29 Slovakia2.45
30 Russian Federation2.31
31 Georgia2.22
32 Suriname2.07
33 Taiwan2.01
34 Chile1.96

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.671668 X +4.448
Correlation coefficient (r)0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 29250.106933 X -49452.190
Correlation coefficient (r)0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.116259 X +69.246
Correlation coefficient (r)0.271
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.085012 X +1.470
Correlation coefficient (r)0.089
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -5.591473 X +30.165
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.350
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122