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Question: Do you agree or disagree that practicing a religion helps people to make friends?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
43 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Dominican Republic91.0%
2 Philippines90.7%
3 Indonesia88.8%
4 Kenya86.9%
5 Tanzania86.0%
6 United States83.0%
7 South Africa81.6%
7 Venezuela81.6%
9 New Zealand80.1%
9 Sri Lanka80.1%
11 Chile79.6%
12 Taiwan78.2%
13 Australia75.3%
14 United Kingdom72.7%
15 Portugal72.5%
16 Switzerland72.3%
17 Uruguay69.1%
18 Slovenia66.4%
19 Mexico66.3%
20 Sweden64.0%
21 Republic of Korea63.1%
22 Ireland61.1%
23 Spain60.3%
24 Norway58.4%
25 Italy57.7%
26 Ukraine57.5%
27 Denmark56.4%
28 Poland55.1%
29 Netherlands53.2%
30 Finland53.1%
31 Germany51.6%
32 Russian Federation50.9%
33 Slovakia48.9%
34 Turkiye 48.5%
35 Cyprus46.5%
36 Israel46.0%
37 Czech Republic44.3%
38 Austria42.4%
39 Latvia41.7%
40 Hungary41.4%
41 France36.5%
42 Belgium32.5%
43 Japan29.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 195 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -2.024442 X +7.579
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.357
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -41872.411663 X +60443.707
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.270
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.073

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -14.010532 X +86.925
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.462
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.213

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = 1.802138 X +0.673
Correlation coefficient (r)0.459
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.211

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -11.669162 X +19.430
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.301
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091