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Question: How important is it to have the following things in our country? - people can practice their religion freely
Choices: "Very important" "Somewhat important" "Not too important" "Not important at all"
Data: % of "Very important" "Somewhat important"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States98.1%
2 Israel97.4%
3 Hungary97.0%
4 Lebanon96.9%
5 Greece96.1%
5 Nigeria96.1%
5 Turkiye96.1%
8 India95.7%
9 Brazil95.6%
10 Philippines95.3%
11 Germany95.2%
12 United Kingdom94.4%
13 Bulgaria94.1%
14 Italy93.8%
14 Poland93.8%
14 Ukraine93.8%
17 Indonesia93.1%
18 Kenya92.8%
19 Argentina92.5%
20 Tunisia92.1%
21 Slovakia91.7%
22 South Africa91.6%
23 Australia91.2%
24 Canada90.7%
25 Czech Republic89.7%
25 Netherlands89.7%
27 France89.2%
28 Spain88.0%
29 Sweden87.4%
30 Lithuania86.4%
31 Mexico85.4%
32 Russian Federation85.2%
33 Republic of Korea84.9%
34 Japan 56.6%

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 = -2.672901 X +8.435
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -33834.155805 X +56510.418
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -29.383322 X +102.095
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.284
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 3.129806 X -0.999
Correlation coefficient (r)0.285
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -24.309359 X +31.856
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.302
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.091