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Question: In general, do you think that pollution of the country's rivers, lakes and streams is for the environment...
Choices: "extremely dangerous" "very dangerous" "somewhat dangerous" "not very dangerous" "not dangerous at all"
Data: % of "extremely dangerous" "very dangerous"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation90.6%
2 Chile89.6%
3 Portugal87.0%
4 Spain85.6%
5 Mexico82.3%
6 Czech Republic78.1%
7 Philippines75.8%
8 Canada75.2%
9 Germany74.1%
10 Slovenia71.7%
11 Israel71.5%
12 United States70.7%
13 Japan69.6%
14 Bulgaria69.3%
15 New Zealand68.6%
16 Ireland65.0%
17 United Kingdom63.7%
18 Austria62.3%
19 Latvia57.9%
20 Switzerland57.3%
21 Sweden56.5%
22 Finland 50.4%
23 Denmark44.1%
24 Norway39.4%
25 Netherlands38.4%

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

No data for 213 countries.

Source
ISSP 2000

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -3.156845 X +8.907
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.672
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.452

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -116938.973423 X +123985.351
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.645
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.416

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.843344 X +86.533
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.388
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 0.291078 X +1.442
Correlation coefficient (r)0.118
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.915829 X +14.189
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007