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Personal value statistics: Health

Health appeared in the ranked ten of 46.2% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 1st most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

By , founder of personalvalu.esData updated

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 1st of 62 values.
46.2%
First placeof assessments put it first. 2nd of 62 on this measure.
10.7%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 55% of those who rank it.
25.4%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
3.8

In the overall ranking health sits just above Family (41.5%).

How the Popularity of Health Has Changed

In 2020 health appeared in 45.4% of assessments and ranked 1st. In 2026 so far it appeared in 37.5% and ranked 2nd, a fall of 7.9 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.

Health, year by year

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

Health by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37845.4%1st10.2%24.9%3.8
2021224,09645.8%1st10.4%25.1%3.8
2022179,27146.4%1st10.5%25.2%3.9
2023397,24948.0%1st11.1%26.6%3.8
2024460,24448.5%1st11.1%26.8%3.8
2025449,23349.2%1st11.9%27.8%3.8
2026 so far337,16337.5%2nd▼18.2%19.5%4.1

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.

Health by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Hong Kong SAR China rank health most often, at 57.5%, and those in Brazil least often, at 24.1%.

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 health is ranked most often

38.4% of participants rank health in their top ten, from 57.5% in Hong Kong SAR China to 24.1% in Brazil. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 24–30%
  • 30–35%
  • 35–41%
  • 41–47%
  • 47–52%
  • 52–58%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of health by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Hong Kong SAR China
57.5%
+19.11st of 62
Poland
52.9%
+14.51st of 62
Italy
47.3%
+9.01st of 62
Philippines
45.7%
+7.33rd of 62
Romania
45.0%
+6.61st of 62
Germany
44.8%
+6.41st of 62
India
44.1%
+5.81st of 62
Egypt
43.9%
+5.63rd of 62
Netherlands
43.1%
+4.71st of 62
United Kingdom
41.7%
+3.41st of 62
Ireland
41.5%
+3.22nd of 62
Australia
41.4%
+3.11st of 62
Canada
40.6%
+2.22nd of 62
Switzerland
40.6%
+2.22nd of 62
Saudi Arabia
40.2%
+1.92nd of 62
Singapore
39.8%
+1.52nd of 62
South Africa
39.6%
+1.22nd of 62
United Arab Emirates
38.0%
−0.33rd of 62
New Zealand
37.6%
−0.72nd of 62
United States
35.8%
−2.54th of 62
Vietnam
33.1%
−5.26th of 62
Malaysia
33.1%
−5.35th of 62
Indonesia
31.1%
−7.24th of 62
Mexico
29.8%
−8.57th of 62
France
28.3%
−10.09th of 62
Brazil
24.1%
−14.212th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 38.4%

Health by Age

Health is ranked more often with age, from 31.0% of assessments among participants under 18 to 47.2% among those 65 and over, about 2.2 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 health by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
31.0%
−5.07th of 62
18–24
34.2%
−1.84th of 62
25–34
37.7%
+1.73rd of 62
35–44
37.4%
+1.43rd of 62
45–54
39.5%
+3.52nd of 62
55–64
42.9%
+6.92nd of 62
65 and over
47.2%
+11.21st of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 36.0%

Health by Gender

Women and men rank health almost equally often, at 36.3% and 36.3%.

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 health by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
36.3%
+0.32nd of 62
Men
36.3%
+0.31st of 62
Non-binary
20.2%
−15.820th 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 health 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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