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Question: How willing would you be to pay much higher prices in order to protect the environment?
Choices: "Very willing" "Fairly willing" "Neither willing nor unwilling" "Fairly unwilling" "Very unwilling"
Data: % of "Very willing" "Fairly willing"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands61.2%
2 Switzerland54.7%
3 Ireland53.3%
4 Japan53.0%
5 New Zealand46.1%
6 Slovenia45.1%
7 United States44.9%
8 Austria44.2%
9 United Kingdom44.0%
10 Denmark43.9%
11 Israel43.4%
12 Canada41.8%
13 Norway40.7%
14 Chile37.5%
15 Sweden32.6%
16 Spain32.5%
17 Germany31.7%
18 Mexico31.6%
19 Philippines30.9%
20 Czech Republic30.4%
21 Russian Federation28.2%
22 Bulgaria23.6%
23 Finland 23.1%
24 Portugal22.1%
25 Latvia21.4%

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 = 2.900915 X +5.651
Correlation coefficient (r)0.464
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.215

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 150852.243276 X -13327.149
Correlation coefficient (r)0.625
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.391

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = 18.080805 X +72.903
Correlation coefficient (r)0.535
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.286

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.038545 X +1.654
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.012
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -2.831361 X +13.301
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.062
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004