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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:
29 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway54.2%
2 Denmark53.2%
3 Iceland50.7%
4 Finland 41.3%
5 Sweden37.8%
6 Australia34.8%
7 Switzerland34.5%
8 Israel29.3%
9 New Zealand24.5%
10 Austria23.9%
11 Japan22.8%
12 Germany21.2%
13 Slovenia20.9%
14 Taiwan18.5%
15 United Kingdom18.2%
16 United States17.7%
17 Chile17.4%
18 Czech Republic16.7%
19 France14.1%
20 South Africa11.7%
21 Italy11.6%
22 Thailand10.9%
23 Philippines9.6%
24 Russian Federation7.9%
25 Suriname7.6%
26 Venezuela5.0%
27 Lithuania3.9%
28 Croatia3.2%
29 Bulgaria2.9%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 209 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 4.238236 X +5.702
Correlation coefficient (r)0.799
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.638

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data29
Regression equation
Y = 144588.906628 X +7792.774
Correlation coefficient (r)0.828
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.686

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = 21.311147 X +74.176
Correlation coefficient (r)0.649
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.421

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -0.410818 X +1.801
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.159
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.025

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -5.790808 X +14.639
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.139
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.019