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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "There are only a few people I can trust completely."
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic88.2%
2 Poland85.6%
3 South Africa84.9%
4 Uruguay84.6%
5 Chile82.4%
6 Russian Federation82.3%
7 Spain81.2%
7 Venezuela81.2%
9 Hungary80.1%
10 Croatia76.9%
11 Portugal76.7%
12 Ireland75.4%
13 United Kingdom74.4%
14 Australia73.8%
15 New Zealand73.0%
16 Israel72.3%
16 United States72.3%
18 Latvia72.1%
19 Philippines72.0%
20 Canada70.9%
21 France70.4%
22 Slovenia70.3%
23 Republic of Korea69.7%
24 Germany68.9%
25 Czech Republic64.4%
26 Sweden63.8%
27 Japan62.9%
28 Finland 62.6%
29 Norway62.5%
30 Netherlands59.7%
31 Taiwan56.3%
32 Switzerland55.1%
33 Denmark51.4%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -5.215339 X +10.349
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.670
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.449

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -173413.151210 X +164606.030
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.623
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.388

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -28.636350 X +99.973
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.568
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.323

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 1.142118 X +0.840
Correlation coefficient (r)0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.925677 X +14.003
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.014
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000