Collection of Graphs Presenting WVS Data

Survival and Well Being as related to per capita GNP.
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



Authority and Value Systems.
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



Mapping Authority and Survival or Well Being.
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



Scatter chart of Authority and Survival or Well Being.
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



Value type by age group, among the Publics of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, and The Netherlands in 1970. European Community survey of February, 1970; based on original 4-item Materialist/Postmaterialst values battery.
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



Cohort Analysis of Value Change, 1970-1994. Cohort Analysis with inflation rate superimposed (using inverted scale on right); % Postmaterialists minus % Materialists in six West European societies, 1970-1994. Based on combined weighted sample of European Community surveys carried out in West Germany, France, Britain, Italy, The Neatherlands and Belgium, in given years, using the 4-item Materialist/Postmaterialist values index (N=243,356).
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



The Shift toward Postmaterialist Values among the Publics of nine Western Societies, 1970-1994. European Community surveys, February, 1970 and Fall, 1994; and (despite the legend above) U.S. National Election Surveys from 1972 and 1992.
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



Values by Birth Cohort and Education Level.
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



Three broad cultural zones: the historically Protestant, Catholic and Communist societies.
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



Cultural differences are relatively enduring, but not immutable: Cross-national differences in satisfaction with one's life as a whole, 1973-1998. Subjective well-being by level of economic development. World Values Surveys, GNP/capita purchasing power estimates from World Bank, World Development Report, 1997. R=.70 N=65 p<.0000
Source: R. Inglehart, Modernization and Postmodernization (Princeton, 1997).



Subjective well-being by level of economic development. World Values Surveys; GNP/capita purchasing power estimates from World Bank, World Development Report, 1997. R=.70 N=65 p<.0000
Source: R.Inglehart and H-D. Klingemann, "Genes, Culture and Happiness," MIT Press, 2000.



The collapse of communism and the decline of subjective well-being in Russia. The position for Russia in 1981 is based on the data from Tambovoblast, 1981. Correlation between GDP/capita and subjective well-being, omitting the ex-communist societies: r=.74. World Values Surveys.
Source: R.Inglehart and H-D. Klingemann, "Genes, Culture and Happiness," MIT



Subjective well-being by level of economic development and historical heritage of given societies. Source: R.Inglehart and H-D. Klingemann, "Genes, Culture and Happiness," MIT Press, 2000



Economic levels of 65 Societies, superimposed on two dimensions of cross-cultural variation. All but one of the 65 societies shown in Figure 1 fit into the economic zones indicated here: only the Dominican Republic is mislocated. Economic level is based on the World Bank's Purchasing Power Parity estimates as of 1995, see "World Development Report", 1997, pp. 214-215.
Source: Inglehart and Baker, American Sociological Review, February, 2000.



Subjective well-being and democratic institutions. Vertical axis is the sum of the Freedom House ratings for Civil Liberties and Political Rights, from 1981 through 1998. Since these ratings give high scores for low levels of democracy, we reversed polarity by subtracting these sums from 236 (China, which had the maximum score of 235, has a score of 1 after this transformation). Horizontal axis reflects each public's mean factor score on happiness and overall life satisfaction and subjective well-being. r=.78 N=62 p=.0000. Freedom House Surveys reported in successive editions of "Freedom in the World".
Source: R.Inglehart and H-D. Klingemann, "Genes, Culture and Happiness," MIT



Predicted and Observed positions on global cultural map. France's prediction is of average accuracy; the small circle around this prediction illustrates our average prediction error. Sweden and Puerto Rico are the two least accurate among 65 predictions. Finland, Lithuania and Uganda are among the six most accurate predictions.



Predicted locations on cultural map of societies that may be surveyed in 2005-2006. The predicted locations of the 14 societies that have not been surveyed previously, are shown in italics.