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Question: Generally speaking, would you say that people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?
Choices: "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted" "You usually can't be too careful in dealing with people" "You almost always can't be too careful in dealing with people"
Data: % of "People can almost always be trusted" "People can usually be trusted"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Denmark85.1%
2 Norway82.8%
3 Finland72.2%
4 Iceland71.8%
5 Sweden70.7%
6 New Zealand67.9%
7 Austria66.2%
8 Australia62.7%
9 Switzerland62.6%
10 Czech Republic56.1%
11 Germany55.7%
12 United Kingdom53.1%
13 Israel50.0%
14 United States45.1%
15 France43.2%
16 Lithuania39.5%
17 Japan 38.0%
18 Slovenia29.3%
19 Italy26.3%
20 Chile13.3%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 2019

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 2.236308 X +5.803
Correlation coefficient (r)0.869
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.755

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 78470.183608 X +8791.824
Correlation coefficient (r)0.732
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.536

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 3.704548 X +79.318
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.026060 X +1.607
Correlation coefficient (r)0.015
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.690512 X +13.998
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.070
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005