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Question: Do you believe in hell?
Choices: "Yes, Definitely" "Yes, Probably" "No, Probably Not" "No, Definitely Not"
Data: % of "Yes, Definitely" "Yes, Probably"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia 99.7%
2 Turkiye97.4%
3 Tanzania87.0%
4 Kenya83.8%
5 Philippines81.8%
6 Dominican Republic77.0%
7 Mexico73.1%
8 United States72.9%
9 South Africa72.8%
10 Poland66.0%
11 Cyprus65.3%
12 Taiwan63.4%
13 Israel62.5%
14 Chile61.8%
15 Sri Lanka61.2%
16 Italy60.5%
17 Venezuela57.4%
18 Ireland55.7%
19 Ukraine53.2%
20 Croatia53.1%
21 Slovakia52.3%
22 Russian Federation48.2%
23 Republic of Korea46.2%
24 United Kingdom45.5%
25 Japan42.7%
26 Portugal41.3%
27 New Zealand38.7%
28 Uruguay38.1%
29 Latvia36.8%
29 Slovenia36.8%
31 Austria34.0%
32 Australia31.8%
33 Spain31.5%
34 Hungary30.1%
35 Switzerland26.4%
36 Finland26.2%
37 Germany23.0%
38 Netherlands21.3%
39 Czech Republic18.8%
40 France17.7%
41 Norway16.4%
42 Sweden12.9%
43 Denmark12.2%
44 Belgium11.9%

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. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -2.819390 X +7.678
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.700
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.490

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -65504.425115 X +65684.431
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.593
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.352

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -13.290440 X +84.596
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.621
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.386

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.476813 X +1.076
Correlation coefficient (r)0.532
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.283

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -12.558223 X +18.321
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.457
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.209