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Question: How much do you agree or disagree with the statement "There are only a few people I can trust completely."
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
25 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland85.6%
2 Chile82.4%
3 Spain81.2%
4 Hungary80.1%
5 Portugal76.7%
6 Ireland75.4%
7 United Kingdom74.4%
8 Australia73.8%
9 New Zealand73.0%
10 Israel72.3%
10 United States72.3%
12 Latvia72.1%
13 Canada70.9%
14 France70.4%
15 Slovenia70.3%
16 Republic of Korea69.7%
17 Germany68.9%
18 Czech Republic64.4%
19 Sweden63.8%
20 Japan 62.9%
21 Finland62.6%
22 Norway62.5%
23 Netherlands59.7%
24 Switzerland55.1%
25 Denmark51.4%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 13 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -4.368449 X +9.907
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.634
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.402

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -155702.892520 X +157389.279
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.551
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.304

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -12.342792 X +89.645
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.414
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -0.074153 X +1.616
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.018
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data25
Regression equation
Y = -9.271031 X +19.745
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027