Personal value statistics: Friendship

Friendship appeared in the ranked ten of 24.7% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 11th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

What friendship means as a value →

Friendship

I value close and meaningful friendships. I want to feel connected to the people I choose.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 11th of 62 values.: 24.7%
First placeof assessments put it first. 18th of 62 on this measure.: 1.7%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 27% of those who rank it.: 6.7%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 5.6

In the overall ranking friendship sits just below Security (24.8%) and just above Growth (24.5%).

How the Popularity of Friendship Has Changed

In 2020 friendship appeared in 23.1% of assessments and ranked 12th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 29.0% and ranked 8th, a rise of 5.9 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.

Friendship, year by year

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

Friendship 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	23.1%	12th	1.5%	5.9%	5.7
2021	224,096	23.6%	12th	1.5%	6.1%	5.7
2022	179,271	24.6%	11th▲1	1.7%	6.5%	5.7
2023	397,249	23.7%	12th▼1	1.6%	6.2%	5.7
2024	460,244	24.0%	12th	1.5%	6.3%	5.7
2025	449,233	24.5%	11th▲1	1.6%	6.7%	5.6
2026 so far	304,533	29.0%	8th▲3	2.3%	9.1%	5.3

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.

Friendship by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Hong Kong SAR China rank friendship most often, at 36.0%, and those in South Africa least often, at 15.7%.

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 friendship is ranked most often

27.9% of participants rank friendship in their top ten, from 36.0% in Hong Kong SAR China to 15.7% in South Africa. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

15–19%
19–22%
22–26%
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Appearance rate of friendship by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Hong Kong SAR China	369	36.0%	+8.1	6th of 62
France	667	35.2%	+7.3	3rd of 62
New Zealand	5,381	31.5%	+3.6	5th of 62
Australia	22,203	31.2%	+3.2	7th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	31.1%	+3.2	7th of 62
Italy	564	30.9%	+2.9	7th of 62
Switzerland	1,067	30.7%	+2.8	6th of 62
United States	154,508	29.5%	+1.6	8th of 62
Mexico	941	28.8%	+0.9	9th of 62
Canada	18,667	28.7%	+0.8	8th of 62
Ireland	385	27.5%	−0.4	9th of 62
Brazil	373	25.5%	−2.4	8th of 62
Germany	2,274	25.3%	−2.6	12th of 62
Singapore	2,481	25.1%	−2.8	11th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	24.9%	−3.0	9th of 62
Malaysia	1,057	24.6%	−3.3	10th of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	24.3%	−3.6	13th of 62
Poland	423	23.4%	−4.5	12th of 62
Indonesia	1,533	21.7%	−6.3	13th of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	21.6%	−6.3	14th of 62
India	7,202	21.2%	−6.7	13th of 62
Romania	1,535	20.0%	−7.9	19th of 62
Philippines	5,645	18.6%	−9.3	17th of 62
Egypt	3,089	17.6%	−10.3	24th of 62
South Africa	2,608	15.7%	−12.2	25th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 27.9%

Friendship by Age

Friendship is ranked less often with age, from 35.8% of assessments among participants under 18 to 23.6% among those 65 and over, about 3.3 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 friendship by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	35.8%	+10.5	2nd of 62
18–24	15,203	26.5%	+1.2	9th of 62
25–34	14,080	21.9%	−3.4	14th of 62
35–44	11,071	19.5%	−5.8	19th of 62
45–54	7,261	19.4%	−5.9	18th of 62
55–64	3,296	21.2%	−4.1	16th of 62
65 and over	1,098	23.6%	−1.7	12th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 25.3%

Friendship by Gender

Women rank friendship more often than men, by 1.7 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 friendship by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	26.0%	+0.7	9th of 62
Men	25,478	24.3%	−1.0	12th of 62
Non-binary	1,210	26.4%	+1.1	9th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 25.3%

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 friendship 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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