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Question: Do you agree that people with very strong religious beliefs are often too intolerant of others?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Finland 84.1%
2 Netherlands82.9%
3 Switzerland81.2%
4 New Zealand80.0%
5 Norway78.9%
6 Germany78.7%
7 Denmark78.6%
8 Australia77.9%
9 United Kingdom76.8%
10 Italy75.1%
11 Belgium71.6%
12 Slovenia71.1%
13 France70.6%
14 Ireland68.7%
15 United States67.9%
16 Sweden67.1%
17 Portugal65.7%
18 Poland64.6%
19 Spain63.8%
20 Austria63.2%
21 Chile62.4%
22 Croatia62.3%
23 Mexico58.3%
24 Czech Republic57.8%
25 Republic of Korea57.1%
26 Uruguay53.4%
27 Cyprus53.2%
28 South Africa52.6%
29 Kenya50.9%
29 Tanzania50.9%
31 Venezuela48.7%
32 Ukraine48.5%
33 Japan46.9%
34 Slovakia44.2%
35 Latvia40.9%
36 Russian Federation40.7%
37 Philippines39.7%
37 Turkiye39.7%
39 Taiwan39.1%
40 Hungary35.9%
41 Israel32.5%
42 Dominican Republic32.1%
43 Sri Lanka24.1%
44 Indonesia12.3%

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 = 3.624237 X +4.200
Correlation coefficient (r)0.662
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.438

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = 101159.860338 X -24958.631
Correlation coefficient (r)0.675
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.456

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 16.127644 X +68.731
Correlation coefficient (r)0.549
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.301

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -1.477316 X +2.655
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.388
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 6.000927 X +8.729
Correlation coefficient (r)0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025