Personal value statistics: Equality

Equality appeared in the ranked ten of 13.2% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 36th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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Equality

I believe everyone should be treated equally. I don’t accept unfair differences between people.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 36th of 62 values.: 13.2%
First placeof assessments put it first. 22nd of 62 on this measure.: 1.5%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 30% of those who rank it.: 4.0%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 5.6

In the overall ranking equality sits just below Job security (13.2%) and just above Challenge (12.7%).

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 13.3% and ranked 33rd, a fall of 6.0 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
Year	Assessments	Appearance rate	Rank	First place	Top three	Average position
2020	84,378	19.3%	18th	2.7%	6.8%	5.3
2021	224,096	17.0%	25th▼7	2.2%	5.5%	5.4
2022	179,271	15.5%	29th▼4	1.9%	4.8%	5.6
2023	397,249	13.0%	37th▼8	1.4%	3.8%	5.7
2024	460,244	11.4%	39th▼2	1.1%	3.1%	5.9
2025	449,233	11.1%	41st▼2	1.2%	3.3%	5.6
2026 so far	304,533	13.3%	33rd▲8	1.6%	4.5%	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 September 2026.

Equality by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Brazil rank equality most often, at 21.7%, and those in Poland least often, at 5.4%.

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 equality is ranked most often

12.9% of participants rank equality in their top ten, from 21.7% in Brazil to 5.4% in Poland. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

5–8%
8–11%
11–14%
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Appearance rate of equality by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Brazil	373	21.7%	+8.8	18th of 62
Mexico	941	17.4%	+4.5	21st of 62
New Zealand	5,381	15.5%	+2.6	28th of 62
Italy	564	14.2%	+1.3	29th of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	13.9%	+1.0	30th of 62
Australia	22,203	13.6%	+0.7	32nd of 62
United States	154,508	13.5%	+0.6	34th of 62
Ireland	385	13.2%	+0.3	33rd of 62
Malaysia	1,057	13.2%	+0.3	36th of 62
Canada	18,667	13.0%	+0.1	35th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	13.0%	+0.1	35th of 62
India	7,202	12.3%	−0.6	35th of 62
Germany	2,274	12.3%	−0.7	38th of 62
Philippines	5,645	12.1%	−0.8	33rd of 62
France	667	11.4%	−1.5	36th of 62
South Africa	2,608	11.0%	−1.9	41st of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	10.3%	−2.6	42nd of 62
Indonesia	1,533	9.7%	−3.3	49th of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	9.6%	−3.4	48th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	8.7%	−4.2	49th of 62
Singapore	2,481	8.6%	−4.3	46th of 62
Switzerland	1,067	8.0%	−5.0	49th of 62
Romania	1,535	6.9%	−6.0	54th of 62
Egypt	3,089	6.0%	−6.9	55th of 62
Poland	423	5.4%	−7.5	53rd of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 12.9%

Equality by Age

Equality is ranked less often with age, from 15.8% of assessments among participants under 18 to 11.8% among those 65 and over, about 0.8 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 equality by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	15.8%	+2.1	26th of 62
18–24	15,203	14.4%	+0.8	33rd of 62
25–34	14,080	13.0%	−0.7	38th of 62
35–44	11,071	12.6%	−1.1	35th of 62
45–54	7,261	11.6%	−2.1	40th of 62
55–64	3,296	12.4%	−1.3	37th of 62
65 and over	1,098	11.8%	−1.8	41st of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 13.7%

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 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 equality by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	14.7%	+1.2	28th of 62
Men	25,478	10.9%	−2.6	46th of 62
Non-binary	1,210	30.4%	+16.9	5th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 13.5%

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 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.

Statistics for every value

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