Personal value statistics: Family

Family appeared in the ranked ten of 41.5% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 2nd most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

What family means as a value →

Family

My family is very important to me. I want to feel close and connected to them.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 2nd of 62 values.: 41.5%
First placeof assessments put it first. 1st of 62 on this measure.: 13.1%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 60% of those who rank it.: 24.7%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 3.6

In the overall ranking family sits just below Health (46.6%) and just above Trust (37.5%).

How the Popularity of Family Has Changed

In 2020 family appeared in 40.8% of assessments and ranked 2nd. In 2026 so far it appeared in 39.5% and ranked 1st, a fall of 1.3 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.

Family, year by year

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

Family 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	40.8%	2nd	12.4%	23.5%	3.7
2021	224,096	41.3%	2nd	13.0%	24.1%	3.6
2022	179,271	41.8%	2nd	12.9%	24.3%	3.7
2023	397,249	42.1%	2nd	13.2%	24.8%	3.6
2024	460,244	43.1%	2nd	13.5%	25.5%	3.6
2025	449,233	41.0%	2nd	13.2%	24.9%	3.5
2026 so far	304,533	39.5%	1st▲1	12.7%	24.2%	3.4

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.

Family by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Hong Kong SAR China rank family most often, at 50.7%, and those in Indonesia least often, at 30.2%.

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 family is ranked most often

39.6% of participants rank family in their top ten, from 50.7% in Hong Kong SAR China to 30.2% in Indonesia. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

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Appearance rate of family by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Hong Kong SAR China	369	50.7%	+11.1	2nd of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	47.0%	+7.4	1st of 62
Egypt	3,089	45.3%	+5.7	3rd of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	42.6%	+3.1	2nd of 62
Italy	564	42.4%	+2.8	2nd of 62
Brazil	373	42.4%	+2.8	1st of 62
Ireland	385	41.8%	+2.3	2nd of 62
France	667	41.2%	+1.7	1st of 62
Australia	22,203	41.1%	+1.6	2nd of 62
New Zealand	5,381	40.7%	+1.1	1st of 62
Romania	1,535	40.5%	+0.9	3rd of 62
Canada	18,667	40.4%	+0.8	2nd of 62
Mexico	941	40.1%	+0.5	1st of 62
United States	154,508	40.0%	+0.4	1st of 62
Malaysia	1,057	39.8%	+0.3	1st of 62
Switzerland	1,067	39.7%	+0.2	2nd of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	39.2%	−0.4	2nd of 62
India	7,202	38.3%	−1.3	3rd of 62
South Africa	2,608	37.0%	−2.6	5th of 62
Philippines	5,645	35.6%	−3.9	7th of 62
Poland	423	35.5%	−4.1	3rd of 62
Netherlands	2,246	34.8%	−4.8	3rd of 62
Singapore	2,481	34.7%	−4.9	4th of 62
Germany	2,274	32.9%	−6.7	3rd of 62
Indonesia	1,533	30.2%	−9.4	5th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 39.6%

Family by Age

Family is ranked more often with age, from 37.1% of assessments among participants under 18 to 41.2% 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 family by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	37.1%	−1.1	1st of 62
18–24	15,203	34.5%	−3.6	3rd of 62
25–34	14,080	34.0%	−4.2	4th of 62
35–44	11,071	42.8%	+4.7	1st of 62
45–54	7,261	45.5%	+7.4	1st of 62
55–64	3,296	44.1%	+6.0	2nd of 62
65 and over	1,098	41.2%	+3.1	2nd of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 38.1%

Family by Gender

Women rank family more often than men, by 5.1 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 family by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	40.8%	+2.5	1st of 62
Men	25,478	35.7%	−2.7	2nd of 62
Non-binary	1,210	17.2%	−21.1	27th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 38.3%

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 family 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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