Personal value statistics: Acceptance

Acceptance appeared in the ranked ten of 11.2% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 41st most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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Acceptance

I want to be accepted for who I am. I don’t want to feel judged or rejected.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 41st of 62 values.: 11.2%
First placeof assessments put it first. 46th of 62 on this measure.: 0.5%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 17% of those who rank it.: 1.9%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 6.4

In the overall ranking acceptance sits just below Religion (11.3%) and just above Courage (11.0%).

How the Popularity of Acceptance Has Changed

In 2020 acceptance appeared in 10.4% of assessments and ranked 43rd. In 2026 so far it appeared in 13.8% and ranked 32nd, a rise of 3.4 percentage points.

Pick a measure, and read it by year or month by month. A month holds a few thousand assessments, so it moves more than a year does. The gaps are months the archive has no data for.

Acceptance, year by year

Each rank is among the 62 values that year, by appearance rate. The arrow is its move from the year before.

Acceptance by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
Year	Assessments	Appearance rate	Rank	First place	Top three	Average position
2020	84,378	10.4%	43rd	0.4%	1.8%	6.4
2021	224,096	10.8%	42nd▲1	0.5%	2.0%	6.3
2022	179,271	10.9%	41st▲1	0.5%	1.9%	6.3
2023	397,249	10.6%	42nd▼1	0.4%	1.8%	6.4
2024	460,244	10.3%	43rd▼1	0.4%	1.8%	6.4
2025	449,233	11.3%	40th▲3	0.4%	1.7%	6.6
2026 so far	304,533	13.8%	32nd▲8	0.7%	2.6%	6.4

2020 holds 6 months of data and 2022 holds 7 months of data, so their figures cover part of the year. 2026 covers January to September 2026.

Acceptance by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in New Zealand rank acceptance most often, at 15.9%, and those in France least often, at 7.5%.

Country is recorded for the assessments from December 2025 to September 2026, so this section reads those 272,982 assessments and compares each country with all of them.

Where acceptance is ranked most often

13.7% of participants rank acceptance in their top ten, from 15.9% in New Zealand to 7.5% in France. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

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Appearance rate of acceptance by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
New Zealand	5,381	15.9%	+2.2	25th of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	14.5%	+0.8	26th of 62
Australia	22,203	14.4%	+0.8	28th of 62
Malaysia	1,057	14.4%	+0.7	31st of 62
Singapore	2,481	14.3%	+0.6	30th of 62
Indonesia	1,533	14.2%	+0.5	35th of 62
Germany	2,274	14.1%	+0.4	30th of 62
United States	154,508	14.1%	+0.4	33rd of 62
Canada	18,667	14.0%	+0.3	31st of 62
Philippines	5,645	13.6%	−0.1	30th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	13.4%	−0.2	34th of 62
Ireland	385	13.2%	−0.4	33rd of 62
Poland	423	12.8%	−0.9	34th of 62
India	7,202	12.2%	−1.5	36th of 62
Italy	564	11.9%	−1.8	37th of 62
Romania	1,535	11.5%	−2.2	39th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	10.5%	−3.1	42nd of 62
Brazil	373	10.5%	−3.2	45th of 62
Egypt	3,089	10.0%	−3.7	37th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	9.8%	−3.9	43rd of 62
Mexico	941	9.4%	−4.3	46th of 62
South Africa	2,608	9.3%	−4.4	48th of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	8.9%	−4.8	51st of 62
Switzerland	1,067	8.0%	−5.7	49th of 62
France	667	7.5%	−6.2	47th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 13.7%

Acceptance by Age

Acceptance is ranked less often with age, from 15.2% of assessments among participants under 18 to 14.2% among those 65 and over, about 0.4 points per band.

Age is an optional question after the ranking, so this section reads the 66,624 assessments from December 2025 to September 2026 whose participants gave one. A difference between bands mixes what changes as people age with what differs between generations.

Appearance rate of acceptance by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	15.2%	+1.4	29th of 62
18–24	15,203	13.4%	−0.4	36th of 62
25–34	14,080	14.0%	+0.2	33rd of 62
35–44	11,071	12.8%	−1.0	34th of 62
45–54	7,261	13.1%	−0.7	35th of 62
55–64	3,296	13.3%	−0.4	32nd of 62
65 and over	1,098	14.2%	+0.4	30th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 13.8%

Acceptance by Gender

Women rank acceptance more often than men, by 3.6 percentage points.

Gender is optional too, asked beside age, so this section reads the 64,656 assessments from December 2025 to September 2026 whose participants gave one. “Prefer not to say” is counted in no group.

Appearance rate of acceptance by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	15.1%	+1.3	25th of 62
Men	25,478	11.5%	−2.3	43rd of 62
Non-binary	1,210	23.1%	+9.2	14th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 13.8%

About These Figures

Every figure on this page is a share of completed assessments on Personalvalu.es, read from the same aggregates as the Global Values Research. The appearance rate is how often acceptance is among a participant's ten most important values. It is not a score, and a difference between groups describes the participants in them without explaining it.

How the aggregates are built, and why some countries and groups are left out, is set out in the methodology. Month-by-month figures for every value are in the monthly archive.

Statistics for every value

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