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Personal value statistics: Forgiveness

Forgiveness appeared in the ranked ten of 8.9% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 48th 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. 48th of 62 values.
8.9%
First placeof assessments put it first. 47th of 62 on this measure.
0.4%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 20% of those who rank it.
1.8%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
6.1

In the overall ranking forgiveness sits just below Commitment (9.2%) and just above Teamwork (8.5%).

How the Popularity of Forgiveness Has Changed

In 2020 forgiveness appeared in 9.3% of assessments and ranked 48th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 10.1% and ranked 45th, a rise of 0.7 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.

Forgiveness, year by year

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

Forgiveness by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,3789.3%48th0.5%1.9%6.2
2021224,0968.8%48th0.4%1.8%6.1
2022179,2718.7%48th0.4%1.7%6.2
2023397,2498.4%49th▼10.4%1.7%6.2
2024460,2448.8%48th▲10.4%1.8%6.1
2025449,2338.4%46th▲20.4%1.7%6.1
2026 so far337,16310.1%45th▲10.5%2.0%6.1

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.

Forgiveness by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Vietnam rank forgiveness most often, at 19.2%, and those in Poland least often, at 4.0%.

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 forgiveness is ranked most often

9.6% of participants rank forgiveness in their top ten, from 19.2% in Vietnam to 4.0% in Poland. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 4–7%
  • 7–9%
  • 9–12%
  • 12–15%
  • 15–17%
  • 17–20%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of forgiveness by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Vietnam
19.2%
+9.618th of 62
United Arab Emirates
12.3%
+2.739th of 62
Mexico
12.2%
+2.535th of 62
United States
10.6%
+0.944th of 62
Philippines
10.1%
+0.541st of 62
South Africa
10.1%
+0.444th of 62
New Zealand
10.0%
+0.343rd of 62
India
9.9%
+0.347th of 62
Malaysia
9.9%
+0.251st of 62
Canada
9.8%
+0.247th of 62
Australia
9.2%
−0.547th of 62
Saudi Arabia
9.0%
−0.653rd of 62
Indonesia
8.4%
−1.254th of 62
Singapore
8.0%
−1.652nd of 62
Egypt
7.6%
−2.153rd of 62
Brazil
6.7%
−2.955th of 62
Romania
6.7%
−2.956th of 62
Italy
6.6%
−3.156th of 62
United Kingdom
6.2%
−3.456th of 62
Ireland
5.9%
−3.754th of 62
Netherlands
5.5%
−4.155th of 62
Germany
5.4%
−4.257th of 62
France
4.8%
−4.859th of 62
Switzerland
4.7%
−4.958th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
4.3%
−5.356th of 62
Poland
4.0%
−5.658th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 9.6%

Forgiveness by Age

Forgiveness is ranked less often with age, from 12.9% of assessments among participants under 18 to 11.0% among those 65 and over, about 1.0 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 forgiveness by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
12.9%
+4.237th of 62
18–24
8.8%
+0.152nd of 62
25–34
6.4%
−2.357th of 62
35–44
6.6%
−2.156th of 62
45–54
7.8%
−0.953rd of 62
55–64
7.9%
−0.851st of 62
65 and over
11.0%
+2.345th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 8.7%

Forgiveness by Gender

Men rank forgiveness more often than women, by 1.4 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 forgiveness by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
8.2%
−0.553rd of 62
Men
9.6%
+0.950th of 62
Non-binary
5.1%
−3.656th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 8.7%

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 forgiveness 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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