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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:
43 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia95.3%
2 Kenya92.6%
3 Philippines89.5%
4 Sri Lanka87.6%
5 Dominican Republic86.5%
6 Tanzania85.2%
7 South Africa83.6%
8 Chile83.2%
9 Cyprus81.6%
10 Ireland76.7%
10 Venezuela76.7%
12 Mexico74.3%
13 Poland65.1%
14 Germany62.5%
15 Israel61.6%
16 United States59.1%
17 Italy58.7%
18 Uruguay56.5%
19 Taiwan55.4%
20 Austria53.6%
21 Netherlands53.4%
22 Spain51.7%
23 Japan 51.4%
24 United Kingdom50.4%
25 Portugal48.6%
26 Latvia47.4%
27 Croatia47.3%
28 Republic of Korea47.2%
29 Slovakia45.4%
30 Finland45.0%
31 Belgium44.8%
32 Switzerland44.3%
33 Ukraine43.0%
34 New Zealand40.4%
35 Norway40.3%
36 Slovenia37.3%
37 Australia34.9%
38 Czech Republic34.7%
39 Denmark31.7%
40 Hungary30.9%
41 Sweden29.3%
42 Russian Federation26.0%
43 France21.6%

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 195 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -2.357084 X +7.660
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.542
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.294

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data43
Regression equation
Y = -56251.684123 X +66527.714
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.418
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.175

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -16.369779 X +86.583
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.535
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.286

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = 1.661457 X +0.848
Correlation coefficient (r)0.509
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.259

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data42
Regression equation
Y = -9.123562 X +15.528
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132