Personal value statistics: Discipline

Discipline appeared in the ranked ten of 19.2% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 18th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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Discipline

I do what needs to be done, even when I don’t feel like it. I stay consistent.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 18th of 62 values.: 19.2%
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.: 6.5%
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 (18.2%).

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 19.5% and ranked 18th, a rise of 2.2 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
Year	Assessments	Appearance rate	Rank	First place	Top three	Average position
2020	84,378	17.3%	24th	1.5%	5.6%	5.2
2021	224,096	16.7%	27th▼3	1.5%	5.5%	5.2
2022	179,271	17.7%	20th▲7	1.7%	6.0%	5.1
2023	397,249	18.9%	16th▲4	1.9%	6.6%	5.1
2024	460,244	19.6%	16th	2.0%	6.7%	5.1
2025	449,233	20.9%	16th	2.1%	7.2%	5.1
2026 so far	304,533	19.5%	18th▼2	1.9%	6.3%	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.

Discipline by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in the Philippines rank discipline most often, at 36.2%, and those in Ireland least often, at 12.5%.

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 discipline is ranked most often

19.4% of participants rank discipline in their top ten, from 36.2% in the Philippines to 12.5% in Ireland. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

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Appearance rate of discipline by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Philippines	5,645	36.2%	+16.9	6th of 62
Mexico	941	32.5%	+13.1	5th of 62
India	7,202	31.3%	+11.9	7th of 62
South Africa	2,608	30.4%	+11.1	7th of 62
Indonesia	1,533	21.9%	+2.5	12th of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	21.6%	+2.2	14th of 62
Singapore	2,481	21.2%	+1.9	16th of 62
Egypt	3,089	21.1%	+1.7	15th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	19.8%	+0.4	18th of 62
United States	154,508	19.0%	−0.4	20th of 62
France	667	18.9%	−0.5	22nd of 62
Switzerland	1,067	18.5%	−0.9	22nd of 62
Malaysia	1,057	18.4%	−1.0	18th of 62
Italy	564	18.3%	−1.1	19th of 62
New Zealand	5,381	18.2%	−1.2	18th of 62
Canada	18,667	18.0%	−1.4	20th of 62
Romania	1,535	17.9%	−1.5	21st of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	16.5%	−2.9	22nd of 62
Poland	423	16.3%	−3.1	24th of 62
Australia	22,203	16.2%	−3.2	22nd of 62
Brazil	373	16.1%	−3.3	28th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	15.8%	−3.6	26th of 62
Germany	2,274	15.1%	−4.3	28th of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	15.0%	−4.4	25th of 62
Ireland	385	12.5%	−6.9	37th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 19.4%

Discipline by Age

Discipline is ranked less often with age, from 22.1% of assessments among participants under 18 to 15.4% among those 65 and over, about 2.0 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 discipline by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	22.1%	+3.9	13th of 62
18–24	15,203	21.8%	+3.5	12th of 62
25–34	14,080	16.2%	−2.1	23rd of 62
35–44	11,071	15.3%	−2.9	25th of 62
45–54	7,261	15.0%	−3.3	28th of 62
55–64	3,296	11.7%	−6.6	40th of 62
65 and over	1,098	15.4%	−2.9	24th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 18.3%

Discipline by Gender

Men rank discipline more often than women, by 11.0 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 discipline by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	14.0%	−4.3	31st of 62
Men	25,478	25.0%	+6.7	11th of 62
Non-binary	1,210	10.4%	−7.9	42nd of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 18.3%

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 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.

Statistics for every value

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