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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark85.1%
2 Norway82.8%
3 Finland 72.2%
4 Iceland71.8%
5 Sweden70.7%
6 New Zealand67.9%
7 Austria66.2%
8 Australia62.7%
9 Switzerland62.6%
10 Czech Republic56.1%
11 Germany55.7%
12 United Kingdom53.1%
13 Israel50.0%
14 United States45.1%
15 France43.2%
16 Lithuania39.5%
17 Japan38.0%
18 South Africa31.1%
19 Taiwan29.7%
20 Slovenia29.3%
21 Venezuela27.8%
22 Thailand27.1%
23 Italy26.3%
24 Croatia24.2%
25 Philippines20.5%
26 Bulgaria18.2%
27 Russian Federation15.2%
28 Suriname14.3%
29 Chile13.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 3.150994 X +5.191
Correlation coefficient (r)0.853
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.728

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 100854.720129 X -6196.269
Correlation coefficient (r)0.847
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.717

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 14.199861 X +72.359
Correlation coefficient (r)0.629
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.396

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -0.410568 X +1.898
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -3.412561 X +14.930
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014