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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the environment? Remember that if you say "much more", it might require a tax increase to pay for it.
Choices: "Spend much more" "Spend more" "Spend the same as now" "Spend less" "Spend much less"
Data: % of "Spend much more" "Spend more"
Period:
Area:
35 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Suriname78.3%
2 Philippines75.9%
3 Georgia73.1%
4 India71.8%
5 Taiwan71.2%
6 Croatia66.7%
7 South Africa64.2%
8 Thailand64.1%
9 Republic of Korea63.3%
10 Chile63.2%
11 Turkiye62.6%
12 Slovenia61.2%
13 Germany59.6%
14 Hungary59.5%
15 Israel57.7%
16 Slovakia57.5%
17 Venezuela57.4%
18 Iceland56.8%
19 Spain55.7%
20 Belgium53.2%
21 Switzerland52.1%
22 New Zealand48.5%
23 United States47.8%
24 Japan47.2%
25 Australia47.1%
26 Sweden46.3%
27 Denmark45.9%
28 United Kingdom41.6%
29 Norway40.9%
30 France40.8%
31 Finland 37.2%
32 Czech Republic36.2%
33 Lithuania31.9%
34 Latvia31.1%
35 Russian Federation30.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 203 countries.

Source
ISSP 2016

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -3.476211 X +8.279
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.464
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.215

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = -86335.440275 X +81817.266
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.441
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -12.388628 X +85.051
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.327
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.107

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.348713 X +0.989
Correlation coefficient (r)0.431
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.186

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -11.134110 X +19.848
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.213
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045