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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - We worry too much about the future of the environment and not enough about prices and jobs today
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Portugal57.7%
2 Chile55.3%
3 Slovenia50.2%
4 Philippines50.1%
5 Latvia47.0%
6 Mexico42.7%
7 Czech Republic41.3%
8 Bulgaria39.8%
9 United States38.3%
10 Israel38.2%
11 United Kingdom36.9%
12 Finland 36.2%
13 Spain35.9%
14 Germany35.8%
15 Austria35.4%
16 Canada32.6%
17 New Zealand32.4%
18 Switzerland31.1%
19 Netherlands30.1%
20 Russian Federation29.0%
21 Ireland28.3%
22 Denmark27.2%
23 Norway26.4%
24 Japan21.2%
25 Sweden19.1%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.070747 X +7.895
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.440
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -164243.903993 X +105038.261
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.609
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.371

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -15.017763 X +85.376
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.397
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.158

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.828770 X +1.335
Correlation coefficient (r)0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -10.108854 X +15.925
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.199
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.040