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Question: Please indicate which statement below comes closest to expressing what you believe about God.
Choices: "I don't believe in God" "I don't know whether there is a God and I don't believe there is any way to find out" "I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind" "I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others" "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Data: % of "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia98.7%
2 Kenya95.0%
3 Turkiye94.9%
4 Venezuela94.0%
5 Tanzania93.7%
6 Philippines92.6%
7 Dominican Republic91.9%
8 Chile90.4%
9 South Africa87.0%
10 Cyprus80.2%
11 Mexico79.3%
12 United States78.3%
13 Poland76.4%
14 Israel75.9%
15 Croatia74.6%
16 Portugal72.9%
17 Uruguay71.3%
18 Italy69.6%
19 Sri Lanka69.0%
20 Ireland67.5%
21 Ukraine67.0%
22 Slovakia59.7%
23 Spain59.5%
24 Russian Federation58.1%
25 Taiwan56.8%
26 United Kingdom47.2%
27 Finland 46.3%
27 New Zealand46.3%
29 Switzerland45.1%
30 Australia43.5%
31 Hungary42.3%
32 Austria41.0%
33 Slovenia40.7%
34 Republic of Korea39.4%
35 Germany38.4%
36 France37.3%
37 Norway37.0%
38 Latvia36.9%
39 Netherlands36.7%
40 Belgium34.4%
41 Denmark33.6%
42 Sweden24.9%
43 Czech Republic23.9%
44 Japan16.4%

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 = -2.627094 X +7.894
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.642
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.412

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -65076.208498 X +73154.532
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -13.607236 X +86.414
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.629
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.396

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.504986 X +0.879
Correlation coefficient (r)0.536
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.287

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -14.084477 X +20.782
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257