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Personal value statistics: Discipline

Discipline appeared in the ranked ten of 19.1% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 18th 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. 18th of 62 values.
19.1%
First placeof assessments put it first. 17th of 62 on this measure.
1.9%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 34% of those who rank it.
6.4%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
5.1

In the overall ranking discipline sits just below Curiosity (19.2%) and just above Wealth (18.1%).

How the Popularity of Discipline Has Changed

In 2020 discipline appeared in 17.3% of assessments and ranked 24th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 19.0% and ranked 19th, a rise of 1.7 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.

Discipline, year by year

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

Discipline by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37817.3%24th1.5%5.6%5.2
2021224,09616.7%27th▼31.5%5.5%5.2
2022179,27117.7%20th▲71.7%6.0%5.1
2023397,24918.9%16th▲41.9%6.6%5.1
2024460,24419.6%16th2.0%6.7%5.1
2025449,23320.9%16th2.1%7.2%5.1
2026 so far337,16319.0%19th▼31.8%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.

Discipline by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in the Philippines rank discipline most often, at 35.7%, and those in Vietnam least often, at 12.2%.

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 discipline is ranked most often

18.9% of participants rank discipline in their top ten, from 35.7% in the Philippines to 12.2% in Vietnam. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 12–16%
  • 16–20%
  • 20–24%
  • 24–28%
  • 28–32%
  • 32–36%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of discipline by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Philippines
35.7%
+16.76th of 62
Mexico
31.4%
+12.55th of 62
India
30.5%
+11.67th of 62
South Africa
30.1%
+11.28th of 62
Indonesia
21.6%
+2.713th of 62
Egypt
20.6%
+1.715th of 62
United Arab Emirates
20.5%
+1.615th of 62
Singapore
20.0%
+1.118th of 62
France
19.0%
+0.122nd of 62
United States
18.6%
−0.320th of 62
Italy
18.3%
−0.719th of 62
Saudi Arabia
18.2%
−0.719th of 62
Switzerland
18.0%
−1.021st of 62
New Zealand
17.9%
−1.019th of 62
Canada
17.7%
−1.320th of 62
Malaysia
17.6%
−1.320th of 62
Romania
17.5%
−1.422nd of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
16.5%
−2.422nd of 62
Brazil
16.1%
−2.828th of 62
Poland
16.0%
−2.927th of 62
Australia
15.8%
−3.224th of 62
Netherlands
15.2%
−3.729th of 62
Germany
14.7%
−4.228th of 62
United Kingdom
14.5%
−4.429th of 62
Ireland
13.9%
−5.033rd of 62
Vietnam
12.2%
−6.735th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 18.9%

Discipline by Age

Discipline is ranked less often with age, from 21.4% of assessments among participants under 18 to 15.5% 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 discipline by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
21.4%
+3.815th of 62
18–24
21.0%
+3.412th of 62
25–34
15.4%
−2.227th of 62
35–44
14.8%
−2.829th of 62
45–54
14.6%
−3.031st of 62
55–64
11.6%
−6.039th of 62
65 and over
15.5%
−2.225th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 17.6%

Discipline by Gender

Men rank discipline more often than women, by 10.7 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 discipline by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
13.5%
−4.132nd of 62
Men
24.2%
+6.612th of 62
Non-binary
10.4%
−7.242nd of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 17.6%

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 discipline 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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