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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements? - To get all the way to the top in this country today, you have to be corrupt.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither agree nor disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye57.9%
2 Republic of Korea51.8%
3 Lithuania50.9%
4 Slovenia48.1%
5 Hungary44.1%
6 France40.1%
7 Slovakia39.5%
8 Latvia39.2%
9 Israel38.5%
10 Poland37.8%
11 Austria37.6%
12 Portugal33.2%
13 Italy30.9%
14 Czech Republic29.5%
14 Germany29.5%
16 Iceland29.2%
17 Estonia27.2%
18 Spain25.7%
19 Belgium23.1%
20 Japan 20.2%
21 Switzerland20.1%
22 Chile19.9%
23 United Kingdom16.3%
24 Australia15.8%
25 United States15.4%
26 Finland13.9%
27 Denmark8.8%
28 Sweden8.5%
29 Norway5.5%
30 New Zealand4.2%

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

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -3.020610 X +7.588
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.657
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.432

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -96746.714461 X +70767.256
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.644
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.415

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -8.676716 X +82.994
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.460
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.212

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.162496 X +1.524
Correlation coefficient (r)0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 9.441036 X +10.786
Correlation coefficient (r)0.248
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062