Country-level estimates of patience
Estimates measured in standard deviations from the global distribution, where 0 is the average. Positive values reflect more patience than the world average.Values shown correspond to country-level averages.
Patience (time preference) (Falk et al. (2018) GPS)
Country or region | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | -0.20 |
| Algeria | 0.06 |
| Argentina | -0.23 |
| Australia | 0.66 |
| Austria | 0.61 |
| Bangladesh | 0.08 |
| Bolivia | 0.07 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | -0.25 |
| Botswana | 0.23 |
| Brazil | -0.26 |
| Cambodia | -0.12 |
| Cameroon | -0.43 |
| Canada | 0.72 |
| Chile | -0.16 |
| China | 0.40 |
| Colombia | -0.35 |
| Costa Rica | -0.16 |
| Croatia | -0.09 |
| Czechia | 0.38 |
| Egypt | -0.38 |
| Estonia | 0.03 |
| Finland | 0.60 |
| France | 0.36 |
| Georgia | -0.49 |
| Germany | 0.62 |
| Ghana | 0.08 |
| Greece | -0.36 |
| Guatemala | -0.26 |
| Haiti | -0.38 |
| Hungary | -0.43 |
| India | -0.11 |
| Indonesia | -0.36 |
| Iran | -0.38 |
| Iraq | -0.42 |
| Israel | 0.46 |
| Italy | 0.11 |
| Japan | 0.11 |
| Jordan | -0.42 |
| Kazakhstan | -0.26 |
| Kenya | -0.08 |
| Lithuania | -0.06 |
| Malawi | -0.05 |
| Mexico | -0.11 |
| Moldova | 0.20 |
| Morocco | -0.31 |
| Netherlands | 0.95 |
| Nicaragua | -0.61 |
| Nigeria | -0.20 |
| Pakistan | -0.08 |
| Peru | -0.11 |
| Philippines | 0.10 |
| Poland | 0.07 |
| Portugal | -0.31 |
| Romania | -0.27 |
| Russia | -0.08 |
| Rwanda | -0.61 |
| Saudi Arabia | 0.20 |
| Serbia | -0.14 |
| South Africa | 0.06 |
| South Korea | 0.37 |
| Spain | 0.20 |
| Sri Lanka | -0.10 |
| Suriname | 0.01 |
| Sweden | 1.07 |
| Switzerland | 0.67 |
| Tanzania | -0.32 |
| Thailand | -0.23 |
| Turkey | -0.05 |
| Uganda | -0.26 |
| Ukraine | -0.18 |
| United Arab Emirates | -0.09 |
| United Kingdom | 0.54 |
| United States | 0.81 |
| Venezuela | -0.23 |
| Vietnam | 0.11 |
| Zimbabwe | -0.24 |
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