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Question: Please tell me whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements. How about "Success in life is pretty much determined by forces outside our control"?
Choices: "Completely agree" "Mostly agree" "Mostly disagree" "Completely disagree"
Data: % of "Completely agree" "Mostly agree"
Period:
Area:
34 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea78.1%
2 Tunisia78.0%
3 India76.8%
4 Indonesia68.3%
5 Turkiye67.3%
6 Russian Federation66.5%
7 South Africa66.2%
8 Slovakia65.9%
9 Greece64.7%
10 Nigeria64.5%
11 Israel61.6%
12 Bulgaria60.9%
13 Poland60.7%
14 Philippines59.6%
15 Ukraine59.1%
16 Japan 59.0%
17 Lebanon58.2%
18 Czech Republic57.9%
19 Germany56.1%
20 Lithuania55.6%
20 Spain55.6%
22 Kenya53.8%
23 France53.1%
24 Brazil51.5%
25 Italy50.9%
26 Argentina49.3%
27 Netherlands48.4%
28 Hungary48.3%
29 Mexico44.2%
30 United Kingdom43.6%
31 Australia41.3%
32 Sweden38.3%
33 Canada31.8%
34 United States29.0%

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 = -4.758210 X +8.685
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.541
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.293

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -114233.805498 X +90232.254
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.640
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.410

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = -21.041409 X +87.146
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.334
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 1.009866 X +1.290
Correlation coefficient (r)0.151
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.023

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data34
Regression equation
Y = 0.994735 X +9.074
Correlation coefficient (r)0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000