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Question: In your opinion, how true is this? "Human beings developed from earlier species of animals"
Choices: "Definately true" "Probably true" ("True" only for Chile) "Probably not true" "Definately note true"
Data: % of "Definately true" "Probably true" ("True" only for Chile)
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan90.1%
2 Denmark89.1%
3 Germany87.9%
4 Sweden86.4%
5 Austria83.6%
6 Portugal83.1%
7 Switzerland82.8%
8 Bulgaria79.3%
9 United Kingdom78.2%
10 Czech Republic76.8%
10 Norway76.8%
12 Slovenia75.9%
13 Finland 75.6%
14 Spain73.5%
15 Ireland71.3%
16 Chile69.9%
17 Netherlands69.1%
18 Canada67.1%
18 New Zealand67.1%
20 Russian Federation61.1%
21 Mexico60.4%
22 Israel53.9%
23 Latvia50.1%
24 Philippines48.9%
25 United States46.2%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 1.280011 X +5.843
Correlation coefficient (r)0.239
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 57751.303276 X +3036.799
Correlation coefficient (r)0.279
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 16.334768 X +68.072
Correlation coefficient (r)0.564
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.318

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -1.497749 X +2.720
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.533
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.284

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 3.534091 X +9.662
Correlation coefficient (r)0.091
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008