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Question: These five diagrams show different types of society. Please read the descriptions and look at the diagrams and decide which you think best describes is the country today.
Type AType BType CType DType E
A small elite at the top, very few people in the middle and the great mass of people at the bottom.A society like a pyramid with a small elite at the top, more people in the middle, and most at the bottom.A pyramid except that just a few people are at the bottom.A society with most people in the middle.Many people near the top, and only a few near the bottom.

Data: % of Type D
Period:
Area:
41 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark58.7%
1 Norway58.7%
3 Iceland47.6%
4 Australia40.7%
5 Switzerland39.8%
6 Sweden37.9%
7 Finland 35.6%
8 New Zealand33.3%
9 Belgium32.1%
10 United States26.0%
11 Austria22.6%
12 United Kingdom20.9%
13 Japan20.0%
14 Germany18.6%
15 Spain17.0%
16 Taiwan16.0%
17 Republic of Korea15.1%
18 Czech Republic13.5%
19 Cyprus13.0%
20 Poland12.6%
21 Slovenia12.3%
22 China12.2%
23 France12.1%
24 Chile11.7%
24 Italy11.7%
26 Venezuela10.2%
27 Philippines10.0%
28 Estonia9.8%
29 Israel9.3%
30 Turkiye8.9%
31 Russian Federation8.4%
32 Slovakia7.4%
33 Argentina7.0%
34 South Africa6.6%
35 Portugal6.5%
36 Lithuania5.9%
37 Croatia5.5%
38 Hungary3.7%
39 Bulgaria3.3%
40 Latvia2.4%
40 Ukraine2.4%

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

No data for 197 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 3.871996 X +5.732
Correlation coefficient (r)0.737
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.543

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data41
Regression equation
Y = 134940.512659 X +10391.277
Correlation coefficient (r)0.857
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.734

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = 16.688082 X +75.743
Correlation coefficient (r)0.567
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.321

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -0.343493 X +1.693
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.138
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data40
Regression equation
Y = -2.647367 X +13.626
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004