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Question: Please tell me whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements. - Prayer is an important part of my daily life.
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Indonesia99.6%
2 Nigeria99.3%
3 Philippines99.2%
4 Tunisia97.5%
5 Brazil96.4%
6 Kenya95.7%
7 South Africa95.6%
8 India95.2%
9 Turkiye90.6%
10 Lebanon85.7%
11 Mexico83.8%
12 Greece70.7%
13 Argentina69.2%
14 United States65.9%
15 Israel61.2%
16 Poland59.2%
17 Ukraine59.1%
18 Italy56.6%
19 Slovakia56.4%
20 Republic of Korea53.4%
21 Russian Federation48.4%
22 Lithuania43.8%
23 Bulgaria42.7%
24 Canada38.2%
25 Hungary37.4%
26 Germany36.5%
27 Japan 35.4%
28 Spain34.2%
29 Australia33.3%
30 United Kingdom31.3%
31 Netherlands27.7%
32 France23.6%
33 Czech Republic21.0%
34 Sweden19.0%

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 = -2.472676 X +7.492
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.645
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.416

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -54204.603812 X +58472.252
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.696
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.484

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -19.441717 X +87.034
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.707
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.500

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.533390 X +0.931
Correlation coefficient (r)0.526
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.277

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -5.317503 X +12.863
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.249
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.062