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Question: Do you believe in life after death?
Choices: "Yes, Definitely" "Yes, Probably" "No, Probably Not" "No, Definitely Not"
Data: % of "Yes, Definitely" "Yes, Probably"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye95.3%
2 Indonesia94.8%
3 Kenya93.0%
4 Philippines82.3%
5 Ireland80.9%
6 United States78.6%
7 Chile78.5%
8 Mexico76.6%
9 Sri Lanka74.4%
10 Tanzania74.2%
11 Dominican Republic73.8%
12 South Africa73.1%
13 Poland71.5%
14 Cyprus71.4%
15 Italy68.5%
16 Israel65.9%
17 Venezuela62.1%
18 Slovakia61.5%
19 United Kingdom60.9%
20 New Zealand60.7%
21 Croatia60.6%
22 Austria59.7%
23 Taiwan59.5%
24 Switzerland59.4%
25 Japan58.8%
26 Uruguay55.6%
27 Netherlands53.2%
28 Ukraine52.7%
29 Australia50.9%
30 Republic of Korea49.7%
31 Finland 48.9%
32 Portugal48.4%
33 Spain47.8%
34 Norway47.2%
35 Russian Federation46.4%
36 Slovenia45.9%
37 Latvia44.5%
38 Sweden43.2%
39 France42.6%
40 Germany40.5%
41 Denmark38.1%
42 Hungary37.0%
43 Belgium30.8%
44 Czech Republic28.2%

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 = -2.872969 X +8.031
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.503
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.253

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -51482.841838 X +64708.812
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -12.620551 X +85.754
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.797702 X +0.710
Correlation coefficient (r)0.459
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.211

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -20.933885 X +24.837
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.540
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.292