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Personal value statistics: Courage

Courage appeared in the ranked ten of 11.0% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 42nd 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. 42nd of 62 values.
11.0%
First placeof assessments put it first. 45th of 62 on this measure.
0.5%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 19% of those who rank it.
2.1%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
6.2

In the overall ranking courage sits just below Acceptance (11.2%) and just above Excitement (10.8%).

How the Popularity of Courage Has Changed

In 2020 courage appeared in 11.7% of assessments and ranked 39th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 11.4% and ranked 43rd, a fall of 0.4 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.

Courage, year by year

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

Courage by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37811.7%39th0.6%2.3%6.1
2021224,09611.1%40th▼10.5%2.2%6.1
2022179,27111.1%40th0.5%2.1%6.2
2023397,24910.8%40th0.5%2.0%6.2
2024460,24410.3%42nd▼20.4%1.9%6.2
2025449,23311.6%38th▲40.5%2.2%6.2
2026 so far304,53311.4%43rd▼50.5%2.1%6.3

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.

Courage by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in New Zealand rank courage most often, at 14.6%, and those in Poland least often, at 7.6%.

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 courage is ranked most often

11.3% of participants rank courage in their top ten, from 14.6% in New Zealand to 7.6% in Poland. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 7–8%
  • 8–10%
  • 10–11%
  • 11–12%
  • 12–14%
  • 14–15%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of courage by country, December 2025 to September 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
New Zealand
14.6%
+3.333rd of 62
India
13.4%
+2.232nd of 62
South Africa
13.4%
+2.134th of 62
Philippines
13.1%
+1.831st of 62
France
13.0%
+1.830th of 62
Australia
12.9%
+1.638th of 62
Malaysia
12.7%
+1.439th of 62
Brazil
12.3%
+1.038th of 62
Romania
12.2%
+0.937th of 62
Saudi Arabia
12.1%
+0.836th of 62
Canada
11.7%
+0.442nd of 62
Italy
11.5%
+0.239th of 62
Mexico
11.4%
+0.140th of 62
United Arab Emirates
11.2%
−0.139th of 62
Ireland
11.2%
−0.140th of 62
United Kingdom
10.9%
−0.442nd of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
10.8%
−0.438th of 62
United States
10.8%
−0.543rd of 62
Netherlands
10.5%
−0.844th of 62
Singapore
10.1%
−1.243rd of 62
Egypt
9.8%
−1.539th of 62
Germany
9.7%
−1.647th of 62
Indonesia
9.2%
−2.150th of 62
Switzerland
8.7%
−2.646th of 62
Poland
7.6%
−3.748th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 11.3%

Courage by Age

Courage holds roughly level across the age bands, from 12.3% among participants under 18 to 12.5% among those 65 and over.

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 courage by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
12.3%
+1.839th of 62
18–24
9.5%
−1.046th of 62
25–34
9.6%
−0.947th of 62
35–44
9.9%
−0.644th of 62
45–54
11.3%
+0.841st of 62
55–64
10.8%
+0.342nd of 62
65 and over
12.5%
+2.037th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 10.5%

Courage by Gender

Men rank courage more often than women, by 1.7 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 courage by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
9.8%
−0.748th of 62
Men
11.6%
+1.142nd of 62
Non-binary
9.3%
−1.345th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 10.5%

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 courage 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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