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Question: Is it just or unjust ? right or wrong ? that people with higher incomes can buy better health care than people with lower incomes?
Choices: "Very just, definitely right" "Somewhat just, right" "Neither just nor unjust, mixed feelings" "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Data: % of "Somewhat unjust, wrong" "Very unjust, definitely wrong"
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 France83.7%
2 Croatia83.1%
3 Iceland81.4%
4 Turkiye80.7%
5 Belgium79.7%
6 Cyprus75.9%
7 Slovenia75.1%
8 Bulgaria74.2%
9 Hungary72.8%
10 Germany72.5%
11 Italy71.3%
12 Latvia70.7%
13 Austria69.9%
14 Sweden69.1%
15 Portugal68.1%
16 Ukraine66.0%
17 Poland62.7%
18 Chile62.3%
19 Switzerland60.1%
20 Norway58.6%
21 Slovakia58.1%
22 Denmark57.7%
23 Spain57.5%
24 Argentina57.4%
25 Russian Federation57.1%
26 Estonia56.9%
27 Finland 56.1%
28 Lithuania55.8%
29 Republic of Korea55.6%
30 Czech Republic55.2%
31 Australia47.6%
32 Taiwan46.5%
33 United States46.4%
34 Israel46.0%
35 Japan45.7%
36 New Zealand37.0%
37 United Kingdom33.4%
38 Venezuela31.7%
39 South Africa24.7%
40 Philippines18.6%
41 China16.3%

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

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 0.576242 X +6.100
Correlation coefficient (r)0.127
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.016

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 19672.391485 X +23465.073
Correlation coefficient (r)0.144
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.021

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 8.118784 X +74.017
Correlation coefficient (r)0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.841901 X +2.126
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.387
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.150

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 5.638884 X +9.826
Correlation coefficient (r)0.152
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023