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Question: What is your personal attitude towards Buddhists?
Choices: "Very positive" "Somewhat positive" "Neither positive nor negative" "Somewhat negative" "Very negative"
Data: % of "Very positive" "Somewhat positive"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Israel55.7%
2 Slovenia54.7%
3 Japan 51.0%
4 Iceland49.3%
5 New Zealand48.0%
6 Denmark47.8%
7 Republic of Korea47.6%
8 Norway47.3%
9 France47.1%
10 Switzerland45.4%
11 United Kingdom45.1%
11 United States45.1%
13 Sweden44.9%
14 Italy43.5%
15 Austria41.0%
16 Finland40.8%
17 Germany39.6%
18 Spain37.3%
19 Czech Republic34.4%
20 Chile29.6%
21 Slovakia29.0%
22 Hungary26.5%
23 Lithuania23.3%
24 Turkiye10.4%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 14 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 4.053204 X +5.127
Correlation coefficient (r)0.624
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.389

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 127844.568221 X -7298.914
Correlation coefficient (r)0.619
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.383

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 17.873763 X +73.490
Correlation coefficient (r)0.730
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.533

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.100876 X +1.546
Correlation coefficient (r)0.030
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 6.618690 X +10.469
Correlation coefficient (r)0.121
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015