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Question: Thinking about the future of (survey country), please tell me whether you feel generally optimistic or generally pessimistic about the following areas. How about our countryfs culture?
Choices: "Optimistic" "Pessimistic"
Data: % of "Optimistic"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia84.3%
2 India81.6%
3 Japan 80.6%
4 Ukraine80.3%
5 Poland79.4%
6 Republic of Korea78.5%
7 Lithuania78.0%
8 Sweden77.9%
9 Hungary77.4%
10 Netherlands75.5%
11 Canada75.2%
12 Slovakia74.3%
13 Germany74.0%
14 Greece72.6%
15 Czech Republic72.2%
16 Mexico72.0%
17 Russian Federation71.5%
18 Nigeria70.7%
19 Australia69.5%
20 Lebanon68.9%
21 France68.8%
22 Philippines68.6%
23 Italy67.6%
24 United Kingdom66.2%
25 South Africa63.6%
26 Argentina63.1%
27 Spain62.7%
28 Kenya61.6%
29 Tunisia59.8%
30 United States57.5%
31 Turkiye56.5%
32 Israel54.4%
33 Brazil51.3%
34 Bulgaria44.4%

Note
Neither/ 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 = 0.660126 X +5.534
Correlation coefficient (r)0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1566.492744 X +24498.439
Correlation coefficient (r)0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 5.204783 X +71.625
Correlation coefficient (r)0.066
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -1.703795 X +3.044
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.203
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.041
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 18.651175 X -3.312
Correlation coefficient (r)0.303
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.092