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   Philippines: 96% believe in heaven, 65% in hell

   Two questions in the same 2019 WVS survey. A 31 percentage-point gap.

   Source: World Values Survey · GESISOpen on the chart →

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   Beliefs need not arrive as a single package. A “yes” to belief in heaven is more common here than a “yes” to belief in hell.

   Both bars use the entire weighted Philippine sample. Do-not-know, refusal and other missing answers stay in the denominator. These are separate questions; the bars do not add up.

   • Believe in heaven all weighted respondents

     2019: 96%

     WVS7 · Joint EVS/WVS v5.0.0

   • Believe in hell all weighted respondents

     2019: 65%

     WVS7 · Joint EVS/WVS v5.0.0

   Published Joint EVS/WVS v5.0.0 tables, WVS7 sample, 2019, gwght weight. F054 (heaven), p. 405: 96%; F053 (hell), p. 403: 65%. Difference: 31 points. Checked against the primary PDF. Weighted TOTAL is 1,200, not asserted to be the interview count.

   Rounded weighted estimates. These tables supply no confidence intervals; no significance claim is made. Marginals do not identify each person’s response combination or explain the gap. This is a 2019 survey, not a measurement of beliefs today. Separate EVS samples are not pooled in.

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   How do the two answers combine within the same individuals?

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