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Personal value statistics: Accountability

Accountability appeared in the ranked ten of 17.1% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 24th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

By , founder of personalvalu.esData updated

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 24th of 62 values.
17.1%
First placeof assessments put it first. 30th of 62 on this measure.
1.0%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 25% of those who rank it.
4.2%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
5.7

In the overall ranking accountability sits just below Success (17.5%) and just above Ethics (15.5%).

How the Popularity of Accountability Has Changed

In 2020 accountability appeared in 15.7% of assessments and ranked 28th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 18.0% and ranked 21st, a rise of 2.4 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.

Accountability, year by year

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

Accountability by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37815.7%28th0.9%3.8%5.7
2021224,09615.2%31st▼30.8%3.6%5.7
2022179,27115.6%28th▲30.8%3.6%5.7
2023397,24916.5%26th▲20.9%3.9%5.7
2024460,24416.8%24th▲21.0%4.0%5.7
2025449,23319.1%20th▲41.2%4.9%5.6
2026 so far337,16318.0%21st▼11.3%4.8%5.6

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 October 2026.

Accountability by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in South Africa rank accountability most often, at 29.2%, and those in Vietnam least often, at 10.5%.

Country is recorded for the assessments from December 2025 to October 2026, so this section reads those 300,899 assessments and compares each country with all of them.

Where accountability is ranked most often

18.6% of participants rank accountability in their top ten, from 29.2% in South Africa to 10.5% in Vietnam. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 10–13%
  • 13–17%
  • 17–20%
  • 20–23%
  • 23–27%
  • 27–30%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of accountability by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
South Africa
29.2%
+10.79th of 62
Brazil
27.6%
+9.16th of 62
Philippines
26.3%
+7.810th of 62
Malaysia
20.5%
+1.913th of 62
India
19.3%
+0.817th of 62
Canada
19.3%
+0.719th of 62
United States
18.8%
+0.319th of 62
Singapore
18.5%
−0.021st of 62
Egypt
17.8%
−0.724th of 62
Germany
17.8%
−0.722nd of 62
United Kingdom
17.6%
−1.021st of 62
United Arab Emirates
17.5%
−1.021st of 62
Australia
17.2%
−1.419th of 62
Indonesia
17.0%
−1.625th of 62
Ireland
17.0%
−1.623rd of 62
Saudi Arabia
16.6%
−1.925th of 62
New Zealand
16.6%
−2.022nd of 62
Mexico
15.7%
−2.926th of 62
Netherlands
14.4%
−4.133rd of 62
Italy
13.8%
−4.730th of 62
Switzerland
13.7%
−4.833rd of 62
Romania
13.2%
−5.332nd of 62
Poland
12.6%
−6.036th of 62
France
12.3%
−6.232nd of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
11.7%
−6.936th of 62
Vietnam
10.5%
−8.142nd of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 18.6%

Accountability by Age

Accountability is ranked more often with age, from 13.4% of assessments among participants under 18 to 20.8% among those 65 and over, about 2.3 points per band.

Age is an optional question after the ranking, so this section reads the 75,449 assessments from December 2025 to October 2026 whose participants gave one. A difference between bands mixes what changes as people age with what differs between generations.

Appearance rate of accountability by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
13.4%
−5.534th of 62
18–24
16.4%
−2.525th of 62
25–34
20.2%
+1.318th of 62
35–44
23.7%
+4.712th of 62
45–54
23.8%
+4.814th of 62
55–64
22.5%
+3.614th of 62
65 and over
20.8%
+1.815th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 19.0%

Accountability by Gender

Men rank accountability more often than women, by 1.7 percentage points.

Gender is optional too, asked beside age, so this section reads the 73,168 assessments from December 2025 to October 2026 whose participants gave one. “Prefer not to say” is counted in no group.

Appearance rate of accountability by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
18.4%
−0.620th of 62
Men
20.1%
+1.116th of 62
Non-binary
13.9%
−5.133rd of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 19.0%

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 accountability 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.

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