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Personal value statistics: Compassion

Compassion appeared in the ranked ten of 18.1% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 20th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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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 (18.1%) and just above Certainty (17.9%).

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 19.8% and ranked 16th, a rise of 0.3 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
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37819.4%17th1.6%5.5%5.5
2021224,09618.4%18th▼11.5%5.0%5.6
2022179,27117.6%21st▼31.4%4.7%5.6
2023397,24917.6%23rd▼21.3%4.6%5.7
2024460,24417.5%23rd1.3%4.5%5.7
2025449,23317.8%22nd▲11.5%5.1%5.5
2026 so far337,16319.8%16th▲61.9%6.1%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 October 2026.

Compassion by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in the United Kingdom rank compassion most often, at 25.5%, and those in Egypt least often, at 9.0%.

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 compassion is ranked most often

20.3% of participants rank compassion in their top ten, from 25.5% in the United Kingdom to 9.0% in Egypt. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 9–12%
  • 12–15%
  • 15–18%
  • 18–20%
  • 20–23%
  • 23–26%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of compassion by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
United Kingdom
25.5%
+5.210th of 62
Australia
22.4%
+2.114th of 62
United States
21.3%
+0.913th of 62
Canada
20.9%
+0.617th of 62
New Zealand
20.9%
+0.515th of 62
Brazil
19.6%
−0.820th of 62
Netherlands
19.3%
−1.017th of 62
Ireland
19.2%
−1.119th of 62
Vietnam
19.2%
−1.218th of 62
Germany
18.9%
−1.418th of 62
Singapore
17.8%
−2.522nd of 62
Malaysia
17.4%
−3.022nd of 62
South Africa
16.9%
−3.521st of 62
Indonesia
16.4%
−3.927th of 62
France
16.4%
−4.027th of 62
Mexico
15.5%
−4.827th of 62
Romania
15.4%
−5.025th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
14.9%
−5.424th of 62
Philippines
14.9%
−5.527th of 62
Poland
14.5%
−5.832nd of 62
Italy
13.8%
−6.530th of 62
India
13.4%
−6.932nd of 62
Switzerland
13.4%
−6.934th of 62
Saudi Arabia
12.1%
−8.237th of 62
United Arab Emirates
11.7%
−8.742nd of 62
Egypt
9.0%
−11.347th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 20.3%

Compassion by Age

Compassion is ranked more often with age, from 15.5% of assessments among participants under 18 to 23.6% among those 65 and over, about 1.9 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 compassion by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
15.5%
−5.828th of 62
18–24
20.8%
−0.413th of 62
25–34
23.5%
+2.211th of 62
35–44
22.8%
+1.614th of 62
45–54
24.5%
+3.212th of 62
55–64
26.1%
+4.811th of 62
65 and over
23.6%
+2.413th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 21.3%

Compassion by Gender

Women rank compassion more often than men, by 10.0 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 compassion by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
25.1%
+3.810th of 62
Men
15.1%
−6.228th of 62
Non-binary
28.0%
+6.78th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 21.3%

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.

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