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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to gain comfort in times of trouble or sorrow?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
43 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sri Lanka95.5%
2 United States95.4%
3 Indonesia94.1%
3 Kenya94.1%
5 Switzerland91.0%
6 Dominican Republic90.3%
7 New Zealand90.2%
8 South Africa89.7%
9 Tanzania89.2%
10 Denmark89.0%
11 Chile88.9%
11 Turkiye88.9%
13 Slovenia88.3%
14 Taiwan88.2%
15 Ireland87.9%
16 Netherlands87.5%
16 Norway87.5%
16 United Kingdom87.5%
19 Finland 86.2%
20 Australia86.1%
21 Uruguay85.8%
22 Sweden85.6%
23 Venezuela85.3%
24 Philippines85.0%
25 Israel84.1%
26 Republic of Korea84.0%
27 Portugal83.8%
28 Italy83.5%
29 Germany83.4%
30 Poland82.7%
31 Spain82.1%
32 Slovakia80.6%
33 France79.7%
34 Russian Federation78.7%
35 Cyprus78.0%
36 Mexico76.3%
37 Latvia75.9%
38 Belgium75.1%
39 Czech Republic71.0%
40 Austria69.7%
41 Ukraine68.3%
42 Hungary59.6%
43 Japan55.6%

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 = -0.700150 X +6.891
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.063
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 25565.788729 X +12783.189
Correlation coefficient (r)0.084
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -7.697216 X +84.585
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.130
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = 2.567751 X -0.341
Correlation coefficient (r)0.336
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.113

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -20.076497 X +28.874
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.266
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.071