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Question: Please indicate which statement below comes closest to expressing what you believe about God.
Choices: "I don't believe in God" "I don't know whether there is a God and I don't believe there is any way to find out" "I don't believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind" "I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not at others" "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Data: % of "While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God" "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it"
Period:
Area:
47 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia98.5%
2 Kenya97.0%
3 Jordan96.9%
4 Algeria96.0%
5 Ghana95.0%
6 Turkiye94.3%
7 Georgia93.0%
8 Nigeria90.7%
9 Nepal89.4%
10 Philippines88.4%
11 Malawi87.2%
12 Suriname86.9%
13 Chile86.6%
14 Malaysia86.4%
15 South Africa81.9%
16 United States73.1%
17 Israel66.0%
18 Cambodia64.1%
19 Singapore63.6%
20 Italy60.2%
21 Croatia60.1%
22 Taiwan56.9%
23 Sri Lanka55.6%
24 Spain51.5%
25 Lithuania47.3%
26 Thailand46.4%
27 Russian Federation46.3%
28 New Zealand44.5%
29 Bulgaria43.2%
30 Hungary40.9%
30 Slovakia40.9%
32 Austria37.8%
33 Iceland37.7%
34 Slovenia36.9%
35 Finland34.5%
36 Mongolia34.2%
37 United Kingdom34.1%
38 Switzerland34.0%
38 Viet Nam34.0%
40 Germany32.9%
41 Republic of Korea31.6%
42 France30.6%
43 Norway28.7%
44 Denmark23.5%
45 Czech Republic21.5%
46 Sweden 19.8%
47 Japan12.5%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 191 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -2.725304 X +7.609
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.680
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.462

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data47
Regression equation
Y = -58971.730008 X +61787.085
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.593
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.352

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -14.839066 X +85.084
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.611
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.373

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = 1.865369 X +0.926
Correlation coefficient (r)0.592
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.350

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -11.993915 X +18.556
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.469
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.220