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Question: Do you agree that life is meaningful to you only because God exists?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye92.8%
2 Indonesia92.5%
3 Tanzania83.0%
4 Kenya78.3%
5 Philippines75.7%
6 Dominican Republic70.9%
7 South Africa70.6%
8 Venezuela48.4%
9 United States46.0%
10 Chile45.4%
11 Portugal43.8%
12 Mexico41.2%
13 Italy40.7%
14 Israel40.0%
15 Poland38.3%
16 Slovakia38.0%
17 Ukraine37.8%
18 Ireland35.6%
19 Taiwan32.4%
20 Sri Lanka29.2%
21 Russian Federation28.7%
22 Uruguay27.2%
23 Croatia25.2%
24 United Kingdom24.2%
25 New Zealand21.9%
26 Cyprus21.4%
27 Spain21.0%
28 France19.9%
29 Republic of Korea19.4%
30 Australia18.4%
30 Switzerland18.4%
32 Austria18.2%
33 Germany18.1%
34 Netherlands17.5%
35 Finland 15.7%
36 Slovenia13.7%
37 Latvia13.3%
38 Denmark12.5%
39 Hungary11.4%
40 Japan11.3%
41 Belgium9.8%
42 Norway9.7%
43 Czech Republic8.9%
43 Sweden8.9%

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 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -2.760894 X +7.240
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.685
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.469

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -61953.284806 X +54784.442
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.561
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.315

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -14.713696 X +83.164
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.690
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.476

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.810504 X +1.176
Correlation coefficient (r)0.655
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.429

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -13.863729 X +16.954
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.507
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.257