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Question: To what extent do you agree or disagree? - Divorce is usually the best solution when a couple can't seem to work out their marriage problems.
Choices: "Strongly agree" "Agree" "Neither Agree Nor Disagree" "Disagree" "Strongly disagree"
Data: % of "Strongly agree" "Agree"
Period:
Area:
33 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Brazil86.1%
2 Austria83.5%
3 Spain81.4%
4 Portugal78.3%
5 Chile76.8%
6 Netherlands74.1%
7 Mexico72.8%
8 Denmark69.2%
9 Cyprus67.6%
9 Syrian Arab Republic67.6%
11 Belgium66.9%
11 Israel66.9%
13 Bulgaria66.4%
14 Slovenia66.2%
15 Poland63.9%
16 Finland63.2%
17 Czech Republic63.1%
18 United States62.4%
19 Latvia61.6%
20 Ireland61.4%
21 Germany60.9%
22 France60.4%
23 Hungary58.3%
24 Norway55.9%
25 Slovakia55.4%
26 Switzerland54.6%
27 Russian Federation54.0%
28 Australia52.5%
28 New Zealand52.5%
30 Tajikistan44.1%
31 Uruguay43.0%
32 Philippines36.6%
33 Japan 33.8%

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. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 205 countries.

Source
ISSP 2002

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 0.936576 X +6.001
Correlation coefficient (r)0.202
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data32
Regression equation
Y = 2522.680385 X +37822.556
Correlation coefficient (r)0.011
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = 4.648746 X +75.342
Correlation coefficient (r)0.119
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.014

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -0.992195 X +2.351
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data33
Regression equation
Y = -9.430107 X +15.493
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.265
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070