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Question: How confident are you that actions taken by the international community will significantly reduce the effects of global climate change ? very confident, somewhat confident, not too confident, or not at all confident?
Choices: "Very confident" "Somewhat confident" "Not too confident" "Not at all confident"
Data: % of "Very confident" "Somewhat confident"
Period:
Area:
17 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea68.6%
2 Singapore63.9%
3 Netherlands57.3%
4 Germany57.0%
5 Japan 50.2%
6 Canada49.5%
7 United Kingdom47.7%
8 United States47.6%
9 Spain46.7%
10 Taiwan45.9%
11 Australia45.2%
12 Greece43.5%
13 Italy42.5%
14 New Zealand39.7%
15 Sweden37.2%
16 Belgium36.5%
17 France33.8%

Note
Don't know/ Refused are excluded.

No data for 221 countries.

Source
Pew Research Center "Global Attitudes & Trends" Spring 2021. For the United States, "American Trends Panel Wave 82" February 2-7, 2021.

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = -1.164612 X +7.214
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data17
Regression equation
Y = 33350.291278 X +31705.108
Correlation coefficient (r)0.189
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 1.974152 X +81.079
Correlation coefficient (r)0.101
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = -1.831295 X +2.337
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.671
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.450

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data16
Regression equation
Y = 14.040470 X +3.461
Correlation coefficient (r)0.317
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100