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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - People suffer from severe health problems because they are poor.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
32 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Bulgaria81.1%
2 Turkiye79.4%
3 Poland76.9%
4 Republic of Korea65.7%
5 Philippines64.8%
6 Russian Federation64.5%
7 Slovenia63.8%
8 Slovakia58.3%
9 Lithuania56.3%
10 Belgium55.5%
11 France54.5%
12 Portugal 54.1%
13 United States54.0%
14 South Africa53.8%
15 China51.3%
16 Israel50.8%
17 Germany50.7%
18 Croatia50.3%
19 Finland49.5%
20 Switzerland46.0%
21 Chile45.5%
22 Australia45.0%
23 United Kingdom43.7%
24 Sweden42.7%
25 Spain39.6%
26 Italy39.4%
27 Netherlands34.4%
28 Czech Republic34.3%
29 Denmark33.4%
30 Norway32.7%
31 Taiwan31.0%
32 Japan29.7%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 206 countries.

Source
ISSP 2011

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -3.326118 X +8.216
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.595
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.354

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = -90666.509503 X +83968.066
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.525
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.276

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = -16.457442 X +87.735
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.495
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.245

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 0.389704 X +1.422
Correlation coefficient (r)0.136
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.018

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data31
Regression equation
Y = 4.051973 X +11.219
Correlation coefficient (r)0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007