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Question: Do you think that the world would be a better place if people from other countries were more like those of your country?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 South Africa60.6%
2 Canada57.5%
3 Philippines51.2%
3 Venezuela51.2%
5 Austria50.2%
6 Chile47.2%
7 Spain44.9%
8 Australia44.5%
9 Portugal44.0%
10 Uruguay42.1%
11 Denmark41.2%
12 United States40.6%
13 New Zealand40.1%
14 Taiwan35.6%
15 Russian Federation33.3%
16 United Kingdom32.8%
17 Ireland32.7%
18 Bulgaria31.1%
19 Hungary30.7%
20 Poland29.7%
21 Japan29.3%
22 Slovenia26.4%
23 Republic of Korea24.5%
24 Czech Republic24.3%
25 Israel24.2%
26 Finland 23.4%
27 Netherlands21.4%
28 Switzerland20.6%
29 Slovakia20.3%
30 Germany20.2%
31 Norway19.6%
32 Sweden19.1%
33 France18.9%
34 Latvia12.5%

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

No data for 204 countries.
Source
ISSP 2003

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.971038 X +7.268
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.335
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -59319.203499 X +60228.052
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.290
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -12.967334 X +83.572
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.362
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.131
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.731885 X +1.396
Correlation coefficient (r)0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -9.008581 X +16.416
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.194
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038