% of population saying “Most people can be trusted”

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  8. Why are Latvians, Poles and Slovaks so distrusting? They’re great, I trust them.

    Slovenia? Croatia? What the hell, I thought the numbers would be very high

  15. I find it interesting that countries with high incomes trust people. It’s almost like the ability to make a comfortable living cuts down on crime….weird

  18. Who the hell chose the colour grading here?
    If I had to judge by the colours, I’d say Italy is closer in value to Sweden than to France, but the difference between Italy and Sweden is 70 times the difference between France and Italy.

    Also, whose idea was it to put white as the lowest gradation, and also have the sea as white? I can’t see half the countries on the map!

  20. I’m Norwegian, I moved to NL and lived for 10 months without locking my door. Some people thought I was crazy

  24. I can see how sweden would score high however I would not say this applies to things like hitchhiking or other social situations where you have to trust a complete stranger.

  25. I wonder does this correlate with actual trustworthiness. Are people in Denmark just more trustworthy than in Albania?

  26. Trust is a pretty good indicator of anomy. Results are quite congruent with the common feelings about how well/bad the society works.

  32. As a Hungarian, I can really envy the trust and the community of the Nordics, I would be so happy if our country could adapt this model.

  33. I downloaded the data set from [QoG](https://datafinder.qog.gu.se/variable/wvs_trust) (A swedish data thing). Some interesting ones for your perusal:

    ## oceania

    * Australia and New Zealand: 50%

    ## south america

    * Peru: 5%
    * Argentina: 20%
    * Brazil: 7%
    * Chile: 13%
    * Venezuela: 15%

    I had totally expected argentina to be on the lower end of this.

    ## North america

    * US: 35-37% – but one of the few that is now lower than the 80s/90s, where it was 40% in ’82 and 50% in ’90.
    * Canada: 46%

    I had expected US numbers to be significantly lower, due to living such sheltered lives (no third place, suburbia is a very isolated place), and being culturally bombarded (cop shows, the news, significant likelyhood of knowing a victim of gun violence) with the notion that the outside world is very dangerous. Then again, 35% is easily covered by the urban population, even disregarding those living in extremely high crime rate areas (though I am by no means sure that they’d score low on this).

    ## Asia

    * Phillipines: 5%
    * China: 65%
    * India: 17%
    * Singapore: 35%

    China is not too surprising and kinda highlights how this data is probably culturally biased. It measures how people answer the question, not how people act. Do you clutch your purse, do you spend a lot on home security (from security systems to guns), do you avoid certain areas at certain times, etc – that’d also be very interesting. Surely in singapore given how its policed, nobody would ever be scared of walking anywhere in singapore at any time of day, nor is there a need to heavily invest in personal security, yet, only 35%.

    * Indonesia: 51% in 2001, 42% in 2006… 4.6% in 2018.

    Biggest drop over the years by a large margin. Data error? What the heck happened in Indonesia??

    * Japan: 35%
    * Korea: 32%

    Had expected these last 2 to be way higher.

    ## Africa

    Checked a bunch of places, pretty much all in the 5-20 range; not surprising.

    * Zimbabwe went from 11% to a current 2.1%, which is not surprising and can hopefully bounce back, but, still, ouch.
    * Yemen – 40% – that leads to a paper’s worth of thoughts, too, doesn’t it? Crazy high considering. Then again, that’s just one measurement, and from 2014.

  34. I call this bullshit or my 🇷🇴 romanian people got the wrong question.
    After 50 yrs of comunism and another 30 of wild wild er’body grab what you can, we can’t be this trustful.

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