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Personal value statistics: Equality

Equality appeared in the ranked ten of 13.3% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 35th 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. 35th of 62 values.
13.3%
First placeof assessments put it first. 22nd of 62 on this measure.
1.5%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 31% of those who rank it.
4.1%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
5.6

In the overall ranking equality sits just below Justice (13.8%) and just above Job security (13.2%).

How the Popularity of Equality Has Changed

In 2020 equality appeared in 19.3% of assessments and ranked 18th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 13.7% and ranked 33rd, a fall of 5.5 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.

Equality, year by year

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

Equality by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37819.3%18th2.7%6.8%5.3
2021224,09617.0%25th▼72.2%5.5%5.4
2022179,27115.5%29th▼41.9%4.8%5.6
2023397,24913.0%37th▼81.4%3.8%5.7
2024460,24411.4%39th▼21.1%3.1%5.9
2025449,23311.1%41st▼21.2%3.3%5.6
2026 so far337,16313.7%33rd▲81.6%4.6%5.2

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.

Equality by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Vietnam rank equality most often, at 22.4%, and those in Poland least often, at 5.7%.

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 equality is ranked most often

13.3% of participants rank equality in their top ten, from 22.4% in Vietnam to 5.7% in Poland. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 5–8%
  • 8–11%
  • 11–14%
  • 14–17%
  • 17–20%
  • 20–23%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of equality by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Vietnam
22.4%
+9.014th of 62
Brazil
21.7%
+8.418th of 62
Mexico
16.4%
+3.024th of 62
New Zealand
16.1%
+2.724th of 62
Ireland
15.1%
+1.828th of 62
United Kingdom
14.9%
+1.526th of 62
Italy
14.2%
+0.829th of 62
Australia
14.0%
+0.731st of 62
United States
13.8%
+0.534th of 62
Canada
13.6%
+0.233rd of 62
Netherlands
13.4%
+0.035th of 62
Malaysia
13.2%
−0.137th of 62
Germany
12.7%
−0.636th of 62
India
12.5%
−0.935th of 62
Philippines
12.3%
−1.033rd of 62
France
12.2%
−1.233rd of 62
South Africa
11.1%
−2.340th of 62
United Arab Emirates
11.0%
−2.346th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
10.3%
−3.042nd of 62
Saudi Arabia
9.7%
−3.647th of 62
Indonesia
9.7%
−3.648th of 62
Singapore
9.6%
−3.746th of 62
Switzerland
8.2%
−5.149th of 62
Romania
7.4%
−5.953rd of 62
Egypt
6.4%
−6.954th of 62
Poland
5.7%
−7.652nd of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 13.3%

Equality by Age

Equality is ranked less often with age, from 16.3% of assessments among participants under 18 to 12.7% among those 65 and over, about 0.9 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 equality by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
16.3%
+2.324th of 62
18–24
14.8%
+0.732nd of 62
25–34
13.4%
−0.736th of 62
35–44
12.7%
−1.336th of 62
45–54
11.9%
−2.239th of 62
55–64
13.3%
−0.834th of 62
65 and over
12.7%
−1.438th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 14.1%

Equality by Gender

Women rank equality more often than men, by 3.8 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 equality by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
15.1%
+1.228th of 62
Men
11.3%
−2.645th of 62
Non-binary
30.2%
+16.37th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 13.9%

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 equality 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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