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Question: How religious are you?
Choices: "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious" "Neither religious nor non-religious" "Somewhat non-religious" "Very non-religious" "Extremely non-religious"
Data: % of "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious"
Period:
Area:
47 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sri Lanka97.7%
2 Nepal 95.0%
3 Malawi94.4%
4 Ghana93.6%
5 Kenya92.9%
6 Cambodia91.2%
7 Philippines88.0%
8 Georgia87.0%
9 Nigeria85.6%
10 Malaysia83.9%
11 Indonesia81.7%
12 Suriname80.1%
13 Jordan79.9%
14 Turkiye74.7%
15 South Africa73.1%
16 Taiwan71.5%
17 Algeria67.4%
18 United States66.9%
19 Singapore65.8%
20 Croatia63.7%
21 Mongolia58.8%
22 Slovenia58.2%
23 Bulgaria55.5%
24 Italy53.7%
25 Lithuania52.8%
26 Russian Federation52.0%
27 Slovakia45.3%
28 Chile43.4%
29 Austria42.7%
30 Iceland40.7%
31 New Zealand39.2%
32 Hungary38.7%
33 Israel37.5%
34 Republic of Korea37.3%
35 Spain35.9%
36 Finland34.0%
37 Germany32.9%
38 United Kingdom32.5%
39 Norway31.7%
40 Switzerland31.0%
41 Thailand30.9%
42 Japan28.5%
43 Czech Republic27.5%
44 France27.4%
45 Viet Nam24.7%
46 Denmark15.3%
47 Sweden14.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 191 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -3.291584 X +7.896
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.775
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.601

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data47
Regression equation
Y = -68116.857214 X +66241.510
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.644
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.415

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -18.320829 X +86.810
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.706
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.498

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = 1.981830 X +0.889
Correlation coefficient (r)0.589
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.347

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -7.944214 X +16.094
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085