Personal value statistics: Compassion

Compassion appeared in the ranked ten of 18.1% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 20th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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Compassion

I care about others and how they feel. I don’t ignore their pain.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 20th of 62 values.: 18.1%
First placeof assessments put it first. 23rd of 62 on this measure.: 1.5%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 28% of those who rank it.: 5.0%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 5.6

In the overall ranking compassion sits just below Wealth (18.2%) and just above Certainty (18.0%).

How the Popularity of Compassion Has Changed

In 2020 compassion appeared in 19.4% of assessments and ranked 17th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 19.5% and ranked 19th, a rise of 0.0 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.

Compassion, year by year

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

Compassion 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	19.4%	17th	1.6%	5.5%	5.5
2021	224,096	18.4%	18th▼1	1.5%	5.0%	5.6
2022	179,271	17.6%	21st▼3	1.4%	4.7%	5.6
2023	397,249	17.6%	23rd▼2	1.3%	4.6%	5.7
2024	460,244	17.5%	23rd	1.3%	4.5%	5.7
2025	449,233	17.8%	22nd▲1	1.5%	5.1%	5.5
2026 so far	304,533	19.5%	19th▲3	1.8%	5.9%	5.3

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.

Compassion by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in the United Kingdom rank compassion most often, at 24.6%, and those in Egypt least often, at 8.2%.

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 compassion is ranked most often

20.0% of participants rank compassion in their top ten, from 24.6% in the United Kingdom to 8.2% in Egypt. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

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Appearance rate of compassion by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
United Kingdom	13,561	24.6%	+4.6	12th of 62
Australia	22,203	22.2%	+2.2	15th of 62
New Zealand	5,381	21.1%	+1.1	16th of 62
United States	154,508	21.0%	+1.0	15th of 62
Canada	18,667	20.7%	+0.7	18th of 62
Brazil	373	19.6%	−0.4	20th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	18.9%	−1.1	17th of 62
Germany	2,274	18.8%	−1.2	19th of 62
Ireland	385	17.7%	−2.3	19th of 62
Singapore	2,481	17.2%	−2.8	23rd of 62
Malaysia	1,057	16.9%	−3.1	23rd of 62
Indonesia	1,533	16.8%	−3.2	26th of 62
South Africa	2,608	16.7%	−3.3	21st of 62
France	667	15.6%	−4.4	28th of 62
Mexico	941	15.5%	−4.5	28th of 62
Romania	1,535	15.1%	−4.9	27th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	14.9%	−5.1	24th of 62
Philippines	5,645	14.6%	−5.4	28th of 62
Poland	423	13.9%	−6.1	32nd of 62
Italy	564	13.8%	−6.2	30th of 62
Switzerland	1,067	13.8%	−6.2	34th of 62
India	7,202	13.1%	−6.9	33rd of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	11.8%	−8.2	38th of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	11.2%	−8.8	39th of 62
Egypt	3,089	8.2%	−11.8	48th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 20.0%

Compassion by Age

Compassion is ranked more often with age, from 14.8% of assessments among participants under 18 to 24.0% among those 65 and over, about 1.9 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 compassion by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	14.8%	−6.0	30th of 62
18–24	15,203	20.3%	−0.5	15th of 62
25–34	14,080	23.1%	+2.3	12th of 62
35–44	11,071	22.7%	+1.9	14th of 62
45–54	7,261	24.4%	+3.5	12th of 62
55–64	3,296	25.0%	+4.2	12th of 62
65 and over	1,098	24.0%	+3.1	11th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 20.8%

Compassion by Gender

Women rank compassion more often than men, by 9.9 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 compassion by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	24.7%	+3.9	10th of 62
Men	25,478	14.8%	−6.1	28th of 62
Non-binary	1,210	27.9%	+7.0	8th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 20.9%

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 compassion 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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