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Question: How important is it to have the following things in our country? - the media can report the news without state/ government censorship
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not too important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Somewhat important"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Greece98.1%
2 Spain97.9%
3 Hungary97.6%
4 Sweden97.0%
5 Bulgaria96.6%
5 United States96.6%
7 Ukraine95.4%
8 Czech Republic95.0%
9 Australia94.7%
10 Canada94.5%
11 Poland94.2%
12 Argentina93.9%
13 Lithuania93.5%
13 United Kingdom93.5%
15 Slovakia93.3%
16 Netherlands93.0%
17 Turkiye92.7%
18 Philippines92.6%
19 France92.3%
19 Germany92.3%
21 Italy92.0%
22 Republic of Korea90.8%
23 Mexico89.7%
24 Japan 86.6%
25 Nigeria82.4%
26 South Africa82.2%
27 Russian Federation81.8%
28 Brazil81.2%
29 India80.6%
30 Israel77.7%
31 Indonesia76.4%
32 Kenya72.7%
33 Tunisia57.2%
34 Lebanon51.8%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 204 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes Survey" Spring 2019.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 6.533694 X +0.231
Correlation coefficient (r)0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 85017.368687 X -49374.314
Correlation coefficient (r)0.440
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 24.264152 X +53.844
Correlation coefficient (r)0.356
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.127

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -2.881672 X +4.402
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.399
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.159

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 10.129523 X +0.706
Correlation coefficient (r)0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036