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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with each of these statements? - People worry too much about human progress harming 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 Bulgaria70.3%
2 Hungary65.1%
3 Russian Federation56.5%
4 Philippines 52.9%
5 Slovenia48.8%
6 Israel43.0%
7 Ireland41.9%
8 Poland40.0%
9 Spain38.0%
10 Italy35.7%
11 Czech Republic35.6%
12 United Kingdom33.2%
13 United States32.9%
14 Netherlands31.7%
15 Germany29.7%
16 New Zealand28.4%
17 Australia27.7%
18 Japan26.9%
19 Norway25.9%
20 Canada21.2%

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 = -3.421085 X +7.994
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.726
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.527

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -116310.588309 X +88365.968
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.611
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.373

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -22.525906 X +88.446
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.752
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.566

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.708633 X +1.347
Correlation coefficient (r)0.241
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 5.125508 X +9.822
Correlation coefficient (r)0.134
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018