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Question: Do you agree that there is a God who concerns Himself with every human being personally?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia99.2%
2 Turkiye92.8%
3 Philippines91.7%
4 Kenya91.0%
5 South Africa86.6%
6 Dominican Republic75.5%
7 Chile75.1%
8 United States70.4%
9 Israel70.1%
10 Ireland69.4%
11 Ukraine67.6%
12 Poland65.2%
13 Portugal64.1%
14 Croatia62.9%
14 Mexico62.9%
16 Venezuela62.6%
17 Cyprus61.3%
18 Taiwan59.9%
19 Italy58.9%
20 Slovakia56.7%
21 Russian Federation55.9%
22 Tanzania51.8%
23 Uruguay48.3%
24 Switzerland47.2%
25 United Kingdom42.6%
26 Spain40.7%
27 Sri Lanka40.5%
28 Republic of Korea40.2%
29 Latvia39.4%
30 New Zealand38.3%
31 Finland 35.0%
32 Australia33.4%
33 Japan33.0%
34 Austria32.8%
35 Denmark32.3%
36 Hungary31.6%
37 Norway29.7%
38 Slovenia29.1%
39 Germany28.4%
40 Netherlands27.7%
41 France23.0%
42 Sweden22.0%
43 Czech Republic18.5%
44 Belgium14.2%

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 = -2.319103 X +7.504
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.537
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.288

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -56322.398017 X +62909.024
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -13.154124 X +84.948
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.575
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.331

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.112978 X +1.217
Correlation coefficient (r)0.375
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.141

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -12.054171 X +18.459
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.411
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.169