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Question: Do you agree that there is little that people can do to change the course of their lives?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway83.6%
2 New Zealand83.2%
3 United States82.9%
4 Australia80.5%
5 Finland 77.7%
6 Denmark76.4%
7 Switzerland74.0%
8 Netherlands72.5%
9 France70.6%
10 United Kingdom69.9%
11 Republic of Korea69.5%
12 Latvia69.1%
13 Germany69.0%
14 Ireland66.9%
15 Spain66.6%
16 Taiwan66.0%
17 Sweden64.8%
18 Japan64.3%
19 Venezuela64.0%
20 Czech Republic62.4%
21 Uruguay59.7%
22 Cyprus58.6%
23 Austria57.9%
24 Belgium57.4%
25 Slovenia54.7%
26 Croatia53.4%
27 Israel51.5%
28 Mexico49.9%
29 Kenya49.2%
30 Sri Lanka48.9%
31 Slovakia48.5%
32 Russian Federation47.8%
33 Chile47.5%
33 Poland47.5%
35 Hungary47.0%
36 Portugal46.3%
37 South Africa45.1%
38 Italy36.1%
39 Indonesia35.5%
40 Philippines34.5%
41 Ukraine34.3%
42 Dominican Republic29.8%
43 Turkiye29.2%
44 Tanzania4.8%

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 = 4.200756 X +3.907
Correlation coefficient (r)0.747
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.558

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = 111448.804656 X -29820.966
Correlation coefficient (r)0.723
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.523

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 19.059374 X +67.330
Correlation coefficient (r)0.638
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.407

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -2.145098 X +3.010
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.554
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.307

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 11.279204 X +5.829
Correlation coefficient (r)0.295
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.087