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Question: Generally speaking, would you say that people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?
Choices: "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted" "You usually can't be too careful in dealing with people" "You almost always can't be too careful in dealing with people"
Data: % of "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted"
Period:
Area:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark77.0%
2 Norway73.4%
3 Cyprus69.2%
4 Sweden65.8%
5 Switzerland65.1%
6 Austria59.9%
7 Netherlands57.7%
8 New Zealand57.0%
9 Canada56.9%
10 Finland56.4%
11 Australia54.8%
12 Czech Republic50.2%
13 Ireland50.1%
14 United States48.2%
15 Germany48.0%
15 Mexico48.0%
17 Hungary46.9%
18 Spain46.8%
18 United Kingdom46.8%
20 Uruguay38.2%
21 Belgium37.9%
22 Israel37.2%
23 Republic of Korea36.7%
24 France36.6%
25 Slovakia34.0%
26 Portugal33.0%
27 Japan32.3%
28 Slovenia32.1%
29 South Africa30.9%
30 Brazil 24.9%
31 Venezuela23.9%
32 Taiwan23.8%
33 Russian Federation22.3%
34 Latvia21.9%
35 Bulgaria19.2%
36 Philippines16.5%
37 Poland16.1%
38 Chile12.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 200 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 3.017550 X +5.302
Correlation coefficient (r)0.731
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.534

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 107284.471724 X -6757.745
Correlation coefficient (r)0.724
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.524

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 14.264715 X +73.000
Correlation coefficient (r)0.553
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.306

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -0.537381 X +1.875
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.246
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.061

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -2.471763 X +13.918
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.069
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005