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Question: Do you personally think it is wrong or not wrong for a woman to have an abortion if there is a strong chance of serious defect in the baby?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong"
Period:
Area:
44 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia92.5%
2 Philippines89.0%
3 Tanzania72.6%
4 Dominican Republic70.6%
5 Kenya69.7%
6 Chile64.6%
7 South Africa63.6%
8 Venezuela55.7%
9 Mexico55.4%
10 Ireland49.8%
11 Sri Lanka49.7%
12 Turkiye49.0%
13 New Zealand40.4%
14 Austria37.3%
15 Cyprus37.2%
16 Israel34.3%
17 Japan32.7%
18 United States31.1%
19 Uruguay29.4%
20 Poland29.0%
21 Latvia27.6%
22 Germany26.1%
23 United Kingdom24.5%
24 Ukraine23.3%
25 Italy23.1%
26 Slovakia 22.8%
27 Croatia22.7%
28 Spain21.0%
29 Republic of Korea20.5%
30 Portugal19.5%
31 Switzerland17.2%
32 Netherlands16.7%
33 Russian Federation16.4%
33 Slovenia16.4%
35 Czech Republic16.0%
36 Australia15.6%
37 Taiwan14.5%
38 Finland13.4%
39 Norway13.2%
40 Hungary11.1%
41 Belgium8.9%
42 Denmark8.3%
43 France8.1%
44 Sweden8.0%

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 194 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data44
Regression equation
Y = -2.217120 X +7.036
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.558
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.311

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -60072.768109 X +56232.010
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.510
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.260

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -16.432698 X +83.561
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.637
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.406

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = 1.876489 X +1.102
Correlation coefficient (r)0.643
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.413

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -7.964551 X +12.871
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.343
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.118