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Question: How religious are you?
Choices: "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious" "Neither religious nor non-religious" "Somewhat non-religious" "Very non-religious" "Extremely non-religious"
Data: % of "Extremely religious" "Very religious" "Somewhat religious"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye87.6%
2 United States76.8%
3 Poland76.5%
4 Mexico69.9%
5 Portugal68.4%
6 Ireland68.3%
7 Italy66.2%
8 Slovakia61.5%
9 Chile57.4%
10 Belgium51.4%
11 Netherlands49.5%
12 Austria48.9%
13 United Kingdom46.1%
14 Republic of Korea44.8%
15 Spain43.4%
15 Switzerland43.4%
17 Israel42.8%
18 Finland40.7%
19 Germany39.6%
20 Australia39.5%
21 Slovenia38.7%
22 New Zealand37.4%
23 Hungary36.2%
23 Norway36.2%
25 Japan 34.5%
26 Latvia33.7%
27 France29.7%
28 Denmark22.5%
29 Czech Republic19.4%
30 Sweden18.8%

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 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.955330 X +7.659
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.516
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.266

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -32365.937679 X +59966.639
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.236
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.056

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -5.551213 X +83.226
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.366
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.134

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.085202 X +1.546
Correlation coefficient (r)0.044
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -10.893800 X +17.819
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.369
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.136