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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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark81.4%
2 Norway75.4%
3 Sweden73.7%
4 Iceland69.0%
5 Netherlands65.7%
6 Switzerland64.9%
7 Finland 63.1%
8 Australia60.8%
9 Austria60.0%
10 India58.1%
11 Czech Republic56.0%
12 Germany52.1%
13 Republic of Korea50.2%
14 United Kingdom50.1%
15 Spain49.5%
16 Belgium41.8%
17 Hungary40.7%
18 United States37.5%
19 Israel37.4%
20 France34.0%
21 Japan33.9%
22 Slovakia32.5%
23 Taiwan31.7%
24 Slovenia29.9%
25 Russian Federation29.0%
26 South Africa27.8%
27 Lithuania24.2%
28 Philippines21.7%
29 Poland20.2%
30 Chile19.0%
31 Croatia17.0%
32 Turkiye14.6%
33 Georgia12.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2014

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 2.901900 X +5.245
Correlation coefficient (r)0.613
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.376

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 95853.253354 X -3158.477
Correlation coefficient (r)0.752
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.566

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 11.937220 X +73.698
Correlation coefficient (r)0.498
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.248

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.505533 X +1.890
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.255
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -0.109618 X +13.851
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.004
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000