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Personal value statistics: Excitement

Excitement appeared in the ranked ten of 10.8% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 43rd 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. 43rd of 62 values.
10.8%
First placeof assessments put it first. 49th of 62 on this measure.
0.4%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 15% of those who rank it.
1.7%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
6.5

In the overall ranking excitement sits just below Courage (11.0%) and just above Tolerance (10.4%).

How the Popularity of Excitement Has Changed

In 2020 excitement appeared in 10.9% of assessments and ranked 41st. In 2026 so far it appeared in 12.7% and ranked 38th, a rise of 1.8 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.

Excitement, year by year

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

Excitement by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37810.9%41st0.3%1.7%6.5
2021224,09610.2%43rd▼20.3%1.7%6.4
2022179,27110.6%43rd0.4%1.7%6.4
2023397,24910.0%44th▼10.3%1.6%6.5
2024460,24410.0%45th▼10.3%1.5%6.5
2025449,23311.4%39th▲60.3%1.6%6.7
2026 so far337,16312.7%38th▲10.5%2.1%6.6

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.

Excitement by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Ireland rank excitement most often, at 16.0%, and those in Romania least often, at 8.1%.

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 excitement is ranked most often

12.4% of participants rank excitement in their top ten, from 16.0% in Ireland to 8.1% in Romania. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 8–9%
  • 9–11%
  • 11–12%
  • 12–13%
  • 13–15%
  • 15–16%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of excitement by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Ireland
16.0%
+3.625th of 62
Switzerland
15.1%
+2.728th of 62
New Zealand
15.0%
+2.632nd of 62
Netherlands
14.8%
+2.432nd of 62
Indonesia
14.8%
+2.429th of 62
United Arab Emirates
13.9%
+1.530th of 62
United States
13.0%
+0.736th of 62
Australia
13.0%
+0.635th of 62
Singapore
12.9%
+0.535th of 62
Vietnam
12.5%
+0.134th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
12.5%
+0.133rd of 62
Canada
11.9%
−0.540th of 62
India
11.8%
−0.639th of 62
France
11.4%
−1.038th of 62
Italy
10.8%
−1.641st of 62
United Kingdom
10.7%
−1.744th of 62
Brazil
10.5%
−1.945th of 62
Malaysia
10.4%
−1.949th of 62
Germany
10.0%
−2.445th of 62
Saudi Arabia
9.9%
−2.546th of 62
Philippines
9.9%
−2.543rd of 62
Egypt
9.2%
−3.244th of 62
Mexico
9.1%
−3.249th of 62
South Africa
8.6%
−3.850th of 62
Poland
8.6%
−3.846th of 62
Romania
8.1%
−4.348th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 12.4%

Excitement by Age

Excitement is ranked less often with age, from 15.5% of assessments among participants under 18 to 7.1% among those 65 and over, about 2.1 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 excitement by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
15.5%
+4.829th of 62
18–24
12.5%
+1.840th of 62
25–34
10.0%
−0.746th of 62
35–44
7.8%
−2.953rd of 62
45–54
6.1%
−4.655th of 62
55–64
5.6%
−5.154th of 62
65 and over
7.1%
−3.754th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 10.7%

Excitement by Gender

Men rank excitement more often than women, by 0.9 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 excitement by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
10.3%
−0.446th of 62
Men
11.3%
+0.645th of 62
Non-binary
10.5%
−0.241st of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 10.7%

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 excitement 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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