Personal value statistics: Financial stability

Financial stability appeared in the ranked ten of 35.5% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 5th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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Financial stability

I want my finances to feel stable and secure. I don’t want to worry about money.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 5th of 62 values.: 35.5%
First placeof assessments put it first. 6th of 62 on this measure.: 3.7%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 38% of those who rank it.: 13.3%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 4.8

In the overall ranking financial stability sits just below Peace (36.6%) and just above Love (32.5%).

How the Popularity of Financial stability Has Changed

In 2020 financial stability appeared in 30.9% of assessments and ranked 7th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 33.6% and ranked 6th, a rise of 2.7 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.

Financial stability, year by year

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

Financial stability 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	30.9%	7th	2.8%	10.8%	4.9
2021	224,096	32.5%	5th▲2	3.2%	11.9%	4.8
2022	179,271	33.7%	5th	3.4%	12.5%	4.8
2023	397,249	35.9%	5th	3.6%	13.5%	4.8
2024	460,244	36.8%	5th	3.8%	13.9%	4.8
2025	449,233	38.2%	5th	4.1%	14.6%	4.8
2026 so far	304,533	33.6%	6th▼1	3.7%	12.5%	4.9

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.

Financial stability by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Poland rank financial stability most often, at 53.9%, and those in Mexico least often, at 27.2%.

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 financial stability is ranked most often

34.8% of participants rank financial stability in their top ten, from 53.9% in Poland to 27.2% in Mexico. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

27–32%
32–36%
36–41%
41–45%
45–50%
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Appearance rate of financial stability by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Poland	423	53.9%	+19.1	2nd of 62
Philippines	5,645	47.8%	+12.9	2nd of 62
South Africa	2,608	45.1%	+10.3	1st of 62
Singapore	2,481	43.7%	+8.9	2nd of 62
Indonesia	1,533	42.3%	+7.5	1st of 62
Romania	1,535	42.3%	+7.5	2nd of 62
Malaysia	1,057	39.0%	+4.2	2nd of 62
India	7,202	38.3%	+3.5	4th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	37.9%	+3.1	3rd of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	37.4%	+2.6	3rd of 62
Switzerland	1,067	36.3%	+1.5	3rd of 62
Egypt	3,089	36.1%	+1.3	4th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	35.9%	+1.1	2nd of 62
Ireland	385	35.8%	+1.0	3rd of 62
Germany	2,274	35.5%	+0.7	2nd of 62
Canada	18,667	34.2%	−0.6	4th of 62
United States	154,508	33.7%	−1.1	6th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	33.3%	−1.5	5th of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	32.6%	−2.2	6th of 62
Brazil	373	31.6%	−3.2	3rd of 62
Australia	22,203	31.4%	−3.5	6th of 62
France	667	30.6%	−4.2	7th of 62
Italy	564	29.3%	−5.6	9th of 62
New Zealand	5,381	28.8%	−6.0	8th of 62
Mexico	941	27.2%	−7.6	11th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 34.8%

Financial stability by Age

Financial stability is ranked more often with age, from 25.6% of assessments among participants under 18 to 36.8% among those 65 and over, about 2.5 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 financial stability by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	25.6%	−10.3	10th of 62
18–24	15,203	36.8%	+0.9	1st of 62
25–34	14,080	40.4%	+4.5	1st of 62
35–44	11,071	39.8%	+3.9	2nd of 62
45–54	7,261	38.5%	+2.6	3rd of 62
55–64	3,296	39.4%	+3.4	3rd of 62
65 and over	1,098	36.8%	+0.9	3rd of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 35.9%

Financial stability by Gender

Women rank financial stability more often than men, by 1.1 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 financial stability by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	36.6%	+0.7	3rd of 62
Men	25,478	35.5%	−0.5	3rd of 62
Non-binary	1,210	24.9%	−11.1	12th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 36.0%

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 financial stability 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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