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Question: Generally speaking, would you say that people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?
Choices: "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted" "You usually can't be too careful in dealing with people" "You almost always can't be too careful in dealing with people"
Data: % of "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway81.3%
2 Sweden73.7%
3 Switzerland68.0%
4 Finland 67.3%
5 New Zealand66.6%
6 Australia63.8%
7 Austria61.4%
8 Japan60.7%
9 Ireland55.2%
10 Cyprus53.1%
11 Hungary50.5%
12 Czech Republic50.0%
13 Belgium49.7%
14 United States48.8%
15 United Kingdom48.7%
16 Germany47.6%
17 Republic of Korea46.2%
18 Israel42.7%
19 France42.4%
20 Slovenia38.8%
20 Taiwan38.8%
22 Latvia33.9%
23 South Africa33.4%
24 Poland30.3%
25 Uruguay29.2%
26 Slovakia28.4%
27 Russian Federation28.3%
28 Dominican Republic26.7%
29 Mexico26.1%
30 Argentina24.4%
31 Bulgaria19.7%
32 Croatia18.7%
33 Philippines16.4%
34 Chile13.4%

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 204 countries.

Source
ISSP 2007

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 2.791219 X +5.312
Correlation coefficient (r)0.748
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.560

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 117483.808170 X -14136.049
Correlation coefficient (r)0.811
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.658

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 16.153316 X +71.701
Correlation coefficient (r)0.653
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.426

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.832830 X +2.052
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.377
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.142

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 3.448469 X +11.914
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010