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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to find inner peace and happiness?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
43 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia98.0%
2 Sri Lanka95.4%
3 Kenya94.3%
4 Tanzania94.1%
5 Turkiye93.8%
6 Dominican Republic92.2%
7 South Africa90.9%
8 Philippines90.3%
9 Taiwan90.0%
10 United States87.3%
11 Chile86.8%
12 Venezuela86.3%
13 Switzerland84.5%
14 Ireland84.4%
15 Portugal83.8%
16 Slovenia83.3%
17 Israel81.9%
18 Poland81.3%
19 Republic of Korea80.3%
20 Mexico80.0%
21 Denmark79.3%
22 Italy78.8%
22 New Zealand78.8%
24 Cyprus77.0%
25 Slovakia76.6%
26 Netherlands76.0%
27 Sweden75.5%
28 Spain74.6%
29 United Kingdom74.5%
30 Russian Federation74.3%
31 Australia73.7%
32 Ukraine73.2%
33 Germany72.0%
34 Uruguay71.9%
35 Latvia71.1%
35 Norway71.1%
37 France66.8%
38 Czech Republic63.9%
39 Finland 61.7%
40 Japan61.6%
41 Belgium61.3%
42 Hungary59.6%
43 Austria58.0%

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 195 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -5.002144 X +10.250
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.548
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.300

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -88810.180524 X +104143.087
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -23.757052 X +96.836
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.485
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.235

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = 3.422700 X -0.890
Correlation coefficient (r)0.540
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.292

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -26.408844 X +32.889
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.422
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.178