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Question: About how often do you pray?
Choices: "Never" "Less than once a year" "About once or twice a year" "Several times a year" "About once a month" "2-3 times a month" "Nearly every week" "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Data: % of "Every week" "Several times a week" "Once a day" "Several times a day"
Period:
Area:
43 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia93.7%
2 Kenya92.7%
3 Philippines92.6%
4 Turkiye85.4%
5 South Africa81.9%
6 Venezuela78.3%
7 United States73.3%
8 Mexico67.1%
9 Ireland66.9%
10 Chile66.6%
11 Poland65.9%
12 Dominican Republic63.9%
13 Slovakia56.5%
14 Italy54.5%
15 Croatia53.2%
16 Tanzania51.5%
17 Cyprus50.8%
18 Portugal49.8%
19 Ukraine45.8%
20 Switzerland45.4%
21 Uruguay43.8%
22 Israel42.4%
23 Spain37.8%
24 United Kingdom35.6%
25 Sri Lanka34.4%
26 Republic of Korea34.2%
27 Finland 33.0%
28 New Zealand32.5%
29 Austria31.7%
30 Netherlands31.1%
31 Australia30.1%
32 Japan29.7%
33 Germany29.2%
34 Latvia28.5%
35 Slovenia28.4%
36 Hungary27.5%
37 Belgium25.0%
38 Taiwan24.7%
39 France24.2%
40 Denmark19.8%
41 Norway17.6%
42 Czech Republic16.5%
43 Sweden14.9%

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 195 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -2.383884 X +7.435
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.563
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.317

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -55968.742434 X +60372.238
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.481
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.231

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -14.153388 X +85.006
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.632
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.399

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = 1.195529 X +1.234
Correlation coefficient (r)0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -13.037970 X +18.089
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.466
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.217