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Question: How interested would you say you personally are in politics?
Choices: "Very interested" "Fairly interested" "Not very interested" "Not at all interested"
Data: % of "Very interested" "Somewhat interested"
Period:
Area:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Uruguay69.7%
2 Germany69.1%
3 Japan66.2%
4 Norway64.7%
5 Denmark62.9%
6 New Zealand61.3%
7 Philippines59.7%
8 France58.8%
9 Australia58.7%
10 Syrian Arab Republic58.3%
11 Israel58.2%
12 Austria57.6%
13 Russian Federation56.5%
14 Bulgaria55.5%
14 Republic of Korea55.5%
16 Canada55.4%
17 Ireland53.5%
18 Netherlands52.9%
19 United States51.3%
20 Belgium49.4%
21 Slovakia48.3%
22 Switzerland47.0%
22 Uzbekistan47.0%
24 Mexico46.5%
25 Viet Nam41.1%
26 Portugal40.0%
27 Czech Republic36.3%
27 Slovenia36.3%
29 Finland34.5%
29 Hungary34.5%
31 Poland34.2%
32 South Africa 33.9%
33 Chile33.8%
34 Spain31.7%
35 Latvia31.6%
36 Cyprus30.0%
37 Tajikistan22.7%
38 Brazil22.1%

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

No data for 200 countries.

Source
ISSP 2004

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 1.855765 X +5.630
Correlation coefficient (r)0.351
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.123

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = 89470.871021 X -6755.429
Correlation coefficient (r)0.445
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.198

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 11.100161 X +73.188
Correlation coefficient (r)0.319
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -0.316107 X +1.905
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.078
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 5.761662 X +9.675
Correlation coefficient (r)0.123
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015