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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - This country should follow its own interests, even if this leads to conflicts with other nations.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria80.3%
2 Chile75.9%
3 Uruguay71.9%
4 Israel68.6%
5 Portugal67.1%
6 Russian Federation64.3%
7 Austria61.0%
8 France60.0%
9 Denmark57.9%
10 Venezuela57.4%
11 South Africa57.3%
12 Ireland57.1%
13 Republic of Korea56.2%
14 Switzerland56.1%
15 New Zealand55.7%
16 Canada53.4%
17 Poland52.8%
18 Finland51.6%
19 Hungary50.1%
19 United Kingdom50.1%
21 Spain49.2%
22 United States47.0%
23 Australia46.0%
23 Czech Republic46.0%
25 Germany43.7%
26 Taiwan41.5%
27 Slovakia40.5%
28 Netherlands38.7%
29 Latvia36.8%
30 Sweden36.2%
31 Philippines 35.5%
32 Norway29.3%
33 Slovenia27.9%
34 Japan23.9%

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

No data for 204 countries.
Source
ISSP 2003

 Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.199866 X +7.221
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.219
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.048
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -37111.935823 X +59304.721
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.195
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -5.715042 X +82.163
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.170
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.029
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 0.434460 X +1.418
Correlation coefficient (r)0.154
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024
Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -1.572056 X +14.197
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001