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Question: Would you like to see more or less government spending in the police and law enforcement? 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 Suriname82.7%
2 Iceland79.8%
3 Germany76.5%
4 Philippines75.7%
5 Sweden75.2%
6 India68.5%
7 Slovenia68.3%
8 Republic of Korea66.7%
9 South Africa62.6%
10 New Zealand62.2%
11 Finland 61.7%
12 Taiwan61.2%
13 Venezuela60.8%
14 United Kingdom60.6%
15 Turkiye59.6%
16 Norway58.6%
17 Israel57.5%
18 Australia57.3%
19 Denmark55.1%
20 Georgia54.0%
21 Spain52.2%
22 Lithuania51.6%
23 Latvia51.5%
24 United States50.7%
25 Chile47.6%
26 Belgium45.5%
27 Croatia44.2%
28 Hungary44.0%
29 Czech Republic43.6%
30 France43.4%
31 Switzerland32.9%
32 Slovakia30.5%
33 Thailand29.9%
34 Russian Federation16.9%
35 Japan16.8%

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 = 0.612502 X +6.090
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data35
Regression equation
Y = 5761.495911 X +31856.476
Correlation coefficient (r)0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.953181 X +79.454
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.065
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.864983 X +1.244
Correlation coefficient (r)0.349
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.122
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -3.403184 X +15.711
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.082
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007