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Question: Looking around the world, do you agree that religions bring more conflict than peace?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Switzerland83.9%
2 Denmark83.5%
3 Norway81.6%
4 Sweden79.8%
5 Netherlands78.1%
6 Australia75.2%
7 United Kingdom74.1%
8 Belgium71.7%
9 New Zealand71.6%
10 Germany71.3%
11 France70.3%
12 Finland 68.8%
13 Slovenia68.3%
14 Italy64.8%
15 Israel63.4%
16 Czech Republic60.6%
17 United States60.5%
18 Spain59.4%
19 Croatia56.1%
20 Cyprus56.0%
21 Portugal55.0%
22 Ireland54.9%
23 Austria52.9%
24 Japan51.5%
25 Uruguay51.1%
26 Turkiye48.6%
27 Poland47.3%
28 Chile46.8%
29 Hungary45.7%
30 Mexico44.1%
31 Republic of Korea43.7%
32 Taiwan43.0%
33 Slovakia42.3%
33 Tanzania42.3%
35 Latvia42.1%
36 South Africa39.5%
37 Philippines37.5%
38 Ukraine32.2%
39 Russian Federation32.0%
40 Venezuela31.3%
41 Sri Lanka29.5%
42 Kenya28.1%
43 Dominican Republic25.6%
44 Indonesia14.4%

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 = 4.407486 X +3.918
Correlation coefficient (r)0.809
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.654

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = 119572.424126 X -30958.500
Correlation coefficient (r)0.801
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.642

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 21.280126 X +66.591
Correlation coefficient (r)0.735
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.540

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -1.341960 X +2.521
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 3.703217 X +10.224
Correlation coefficient (r)0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010