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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:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland84.6%
2 Philippines 81.8%
3 Cyprus81.6%
4 United States76.5%
5 Portugal76.2%
6 Ireland69.5%
7 Italy64.9%
8 Austria62.7%
9 Spain56.8%
10 Slovakia54.6%
11 Netherlands54.3%
12 Bulgaria51.4%
13 Canada47.0%
14 Chile46.7%
15 Russian Federation46.6%
16 Hungary45.6%
17 Australia44.8%
18 New Zealand42.7%
19 United Kingdom40.8%
20 Norway39.8%
21 Switzerland39.3%
22 Slovenia38.2%
23 Latvia38.1%
24 Israel37.7%
25 Japan32.0%
26 Germany30.6%
27 France29.3%
28 Denmark28.4%
29 Czech Republic25.8%
30 Sweden16.7%

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 208 countries.

Source
ISSP 1998

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.290551 X +7.318
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.379
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -29028.376584 X +57247.646
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.212
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.045

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -6.008374 X +82.881
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -0.192894 X +1.695
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.106
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.011

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -9.821341 X +16.905
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.372
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138