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Question: Do you agree that life is only meaningful if you provide the meaning yourself?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sri Lanka92.1%
2 Venezuela88.1%
3 France87.7%
4 Taiwan86.8%
5 Switzerland85.7%
6 Denmark83.6%
7 Germany83.3%
8 Japan83.2%
9 Indonesia82.6%
10 Cyprus82.2%
11 Portugal82.1%
12 Republic of Korea82.0%
13 Latvia81.2%
14 Italy80.5%
15 Russian Federation80.4%
16 Belgium79.8%
17 Czech Republic79.1%
18 Uruguay78.7%
19 Spain78.5%
20 Israel77.5%
21 Mexico77.0%
22 Sweden76.8%
23 Hungary76.6%
24 Kenya75.0%
25 Netherlands74.6%
26 Slovenia74.5%
27 Chile73.5%
28 South Africa72.9%
29 Turkiye71.8%
30 Poland70.9%
31 Austria70.2%
31 Dominican Republic70.2%
33 Norway69.1%
33 Philippines69.1%
35 Croatia65.8%
35 Ukraine65.8%
37 Ireland59.9%
38 Australia59.5%
38 Slovakia59.5%
40 Finland 59.1%
41 New Zealand57.2%
42 Tanzania54.2%
43 United Kingdom53.3%
44 United States49.0%

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 = -1.110833 X +7.125
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -43656.711419 X +66081.789
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.174
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.030

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 5.096667 X +74.396
Correlation coefficient (r)0.103
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -0.939801 X +2.485
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.147
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 4.141847 X +9.180
Correlation coefficient (r)0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004