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Question: In general, do you think that pollution of the country's rivers, lakes and streams is for the environment...
Choices: "extremely dangerous" "very dangerous" "somewhat dangerous" "not very dangerous" "not dangerous at all"
Data: % of "extremely dangerous" "very dangerous"
Period:
Area:
28 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Russian Federation89.7%
2 Slovakia83.0%
3 Spain79.6%
4 Germany78.9%
5 Slovenia76.0%
6 New Zealand74.9%
7 Croatia73.5%
8 Taiwan73.4%
9 Australia73.2%
10 United States72.0%
11 Italy71.8%
12 Philippines68.8%
13 France67.8%
14 Austria65.6%
14 South Africa65.6%
14 Sweden65.6%
17 Thailand63.0%
18 Lithuania62.2%
19 India59.4%
20 Switzerland58.7%
21 Republic of Korea58.6%
22 Finland57.9%
23 Japan 57.8%
24 Denmark55.0%
25 Hungary53.6%
26 Norway45.7%
27 China43.9%
28 Iceland42.2%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded.

No data for 210 countries.

Source
ISSP 2020

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -1.058471 X +7.195
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.161
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.026

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data28
Regression equation
Y = -68095.859334 X +84109.083
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.292
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = -9.814883 X +85.031
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.197
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.039

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 0.243670 X +1.439
Correlation coefficient (r)0.077
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data27
Regression equation
Y = 2.869884 X +9.721
Correlation coefficient (r)0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004