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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the military and defence? 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:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation69.5%
2 Israel55.5%
3 Philippines54.0%
4 Dominican Republic52.7%
5 Viet Nam48.8%
6 Poland47.8%
7 Canada43.4%
8 Republic of Korea37.4%
9 South Africa37.0%
10 Uruguay36.4%
11 Tajikistan35.6%
12 United States31.0%
13 Portugal30.9%
14 Croatia27.3%
15 Ireland25.3%
16 Australia25.2%
17 New Zealand25.0%
18 Latvia24.8%
19 Hungary24.4%
20 Chile20.8%
21 Japan20.5%
22 Spain19.2%
23 Uzbekistan18.9%
24 Norway14.0%
25 Finland 13.0%
26 Slovenia12.7%
27 Switzerland12.0%
28 Germany11.7%
29 Czech Republic10.0%
30 France8.7%
31 Denmark5.7%
32 Syrian Arab Republic4.9%
33 Netherlands4.3%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 205 countries.
Source
ISSP 2006

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -2.501649 X +7.226
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.568
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.323
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -77340.890229 X +58450.029
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -11.862570 X +81.784
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.710996 X +1.597
Correlation coefficient (r)0.208
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.043
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 1.906700 X +12.315
Correlation coefficient (r)0.050
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003