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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - Economic growth always harm the environment
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan60.3%
2 Bulgaria58.1%
3 Italy56.1%
4 Poland48.9%
5 Slovenia47.7%
6 Germany45.5%
7 Spain42.3%
8 Hungary41.5%
9 Russian Federation41.2%
10 Philippines 40.9%
11 Czech Republic35.5%
12 Ireland32.4%
13 Netherlands30.1%
14 United Kingdom25.7%
15 Israel25.1%
16 United States21.1%
17 Australia19.7%
18 Canada19.5%
19 Norway18.1%
20 New Zealand17.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 218 countries.

Source
ISSP 1993

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -3.347328 X +7.867
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.741
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.549

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -111972.066053 X +83409.442
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.614
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.377

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -8.054520 X +82.529
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.280
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.078

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.689343 X +1.876
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.244
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.060

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.941565 X +10.765
Correlation coefficient (r)0.080
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006