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Question: Do you personally think it is wrong or not wrong for a woman to have an abortion if the family has a very low income and cannot afford any more children?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong"
Period:
Area:
47 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Philippines97.4%
2 Indonesia95.3%
3 Malawi94.4%
4 Kenya92.9%
5 Ghana91.6%
6 Thailand89.9%
7 Malaysia86.1%
8 Nigeria85.4%
9 Sri Lanka82.8%
10 Algeria81.6%
11 Suriname74.7%
12 South Africa74.3%
13 Chile72.1%
14 Mongolia69.4%
15 Turkiye64.7%
16 Nepal63.3%
17 Georgia61.7%
18 Cambodia59.7%
19 Italy55.5%
20 United States54.4%
21 Viet Nam54.1%
22 Jordan52.3%
23 Singapore51.8%
24 Lithuania51.5%
25 Croatia49.0%
26 Israel48.3%
27 Slovakia 46.4%
28 Taiwan44.4%
29 Bulgaria41.8%
30 Germany41.7%
30 Republic of Korea41.7%
32 Russian Federation40.8%
33 Hungary40.6%
34 Japan39.3%
35 Austria38.9%
36 Switzerland35.8%
37 Czech Republic35.0%
38 Spain32.2%
39 New Zealand30.6%
40 Slovenia28.2%
41 Finland22.9%
42 Iceland22.4%
43 Norway21.8%
44 United Kingdom20.6%
45 Denmark15.9%
46 Sweden15.2%
47 France14.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 191 countries.

Source
ISSP 2018

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -3.071658 X +7.671
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.723
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.523

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -79367.273424 X +72227.051
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.698
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.487

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -20.165496 X +87.137
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.703
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.494

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = 2.043052 X +0.845
Correlation coefficient (r)0.610
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.372

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data46
Regression equation
Y = -2.611346 X +11.606
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013