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Question: Now Ifm going to read a list of political leaders. For each, tell me how much confidence you have in each leader to do the right thing regarding world affairs. - German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Choices: "A lot of confidence" "Some confidence" "Not too much confidence" "No confidence at all"
Data: % of "A lot of confidence" "Some confidence"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Sweden90.1%
2 Netherlands88.2%
3 Canada85.3%
4 Australia80.8%
5 Republic of Korea79.5%
6 Germany79.0%
7 Ukraine78.7%
8 France76.9%
9 United Kingdom76.8%
10 Japan 76.1%
11 Lithuania75.9%
12 Spain74.9%
13 Philippines74.2%
13 Tunisia74.2%
15 United States71.1%
16 Kenya63.4%
17 Nigeria62.0%
18 Indonesia61.4%
19 Israel60.8%
20 Lebanon59.8%
21 India57.8%
22 Bulgaria57.4%
23 South Africa50.9%
24 Poland50.3%
25 Italy49.2%
26 Brazil43.5%
27 Mexico43.1%
28 Russian Federation42.9%
29 Argentina41.4%
30 Slovakia38.5%
31 Hungary32.5%
32 Czech Republic31.0%
33 Turkiye29.8%
34 Greece23.4%

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 = 1.137331 X +5.296
Correlation coefficient (r)0.204
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.042
GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 53883.585185 X -7390.754
Correlation coefficient (r)0.476
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.227
Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 10.915468 X +68.558
Correlation coefficient (r)0.273
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -0.216235 X +1.994
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003
Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 6.091294 X +5.909
Correlation coefficient (r)0.196
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.038