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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:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark79.6%
2 Norway78.9%
3 Sweden69.4%
4 Ukraine66.2%
5 Tanzania64.0%
6 New Zealand63.6%
7 Netherlands63.2%
8 Austria61.4%
9 Finland 60.2%
10 Switzerland58.8%
11 Australia55.7%
11 Ireland55.7%
13 United Kingdom48.5%
14 Czech Republic45.2%
15 Belgium44.3%
15 United States44.3%
17 Germany43.1%
18 Hungary41.7%
18 Sri Lanka41.7%
20 Republic of Korea40.3%
21 Spain40.2%
22 Taiwan39.4%
23 Japan38.2%
24 France35.5%
25 Israel32.5%
26 Slovakia28.4%
27 Venezuela27.9%
28 Russian Federation27.4%
29 South Africa27.1%
30 Poland26.8%
31 Philippines25.1%
32 Latvia24.7%
33 Uruguay22.8%
34 Mexico22.6%
35 Portugal22.4%
36 Slovenia21.7%
37 Indonesia20.5%
38 Dominican Republic20.1%
39 Italy19.8%
40 Kenya19.6%
41 Cyprus17.6%
42 Chile16.5%
43 Croatia14.8%
44 Turkiye6.3%

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 = 2.345542 X +5.383
Correlation coefficient (r)0.462
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = 89626.811416 X -1381.122
Correlation coefficient (r)0.645
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.416

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 8.081909 X +74.992
Correlation coefficient (r)0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -0.305138 X +1.911
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.088
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 6.335469 X +9.756
Correlation coefficient (r)0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034