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Question: Generally speaking, do you think your country is better than most other countries?
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
20 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Japan 83.9%
2 Australia83.0%
3 United States81.2%
4 New Zealand78.1%
5 Canada76.5%
6 Ireland71.1%
7 Austria69.0%
8 Norway67.2%
9 United Kingdom55.6%
10 Sweden47.6%
11 Netherlands45.6%
12 Poland38.7%
13 Germany36.9%
14 Italy36.8%
15 Spain36.1%
16 Latvia32.2%
17 Slovenia27.8%
18 Hungary26.5%
19 Slovakia23.2%
20 Czech Republic21.9%

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

No data for 18 countries.

Source
ISSP 1995

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 0.856895 X +6.356
Correlation coefficient (r)0.412
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.170

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 69738.175995 X +10273.354
Correlation coefficient (r)0.679
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.461

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = 7.010360 X +76.803
Correlation coefficient (r)0.565
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.319

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -0.017577 X +1.522
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data20
Regression equation
Y = -1.515680 X +13.582
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.093
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009