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Personal value statistics: Health

Health appeared in the ranked ten of 46.6% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 1st 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. 1st of 62 values.
46.6%
First placeof assessments put it first. 2nd of 62 on this measure.
10.8%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 55% of those who rank it.
25.7%
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 39.0% and ranked 2nd, a fall of 6.5 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 far304,53339.0%2nd▼18.7%20.5%4.0

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.

Health by Country

Of the 25 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 September 2026, so this section reads those 272,982 assessments and compares each country with all of them.

Where health is ranked most often

39.8% 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 September 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Hong Kong SAR China
57.5%
+17.71st of 62
Poland
56.7%
+16.91st of 62
Italy
47.3%
+7.51st of 62
Egypt
47.2%
+7.41st of 62
Philippines
46.3%
+6.53rd of 62
Romania
46.1%
+6.31st of 62
Germany
46.0%
+6.21st of 62
Ireland
45.2%
+5.41st of 62
India
45.1%
+5.31st of 62
United Kingdom
45.0%
+5.21st of 62
Netherlands
44.5%
+4.71st of 62
Singapore
43.9%
+4.11st of 62
Saudi Arabia
43.1%
+3.32nd of 62
Australia
42.9%
+3.11st of 62
Switzerland
42.5%
+2.71st of 62
Canada
42.1%
+2.31st of 62
United Arab Emirates
41.6%
+1.83rd of 62
South Africa
40.2%
+0.42nd of 62
New Zealand
39.2%
−0.62nd of 62
United States
37.1%
−2.72nd of 62
Mexico
33.7%
−6.14th of 62
Malaysia
33.6%
−6.25th of 62
Indonesia
32.6%
−7.24th of 62
France
28.6%
−11.29th of 62
Brazil
24.1%
−15.712th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 39.8%

Health by Age

Health is ranked more often with age, from 32.6% of assessments among participants under 18 to 49.5% among those 65 and over, about 2.3 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 health by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
32.6%
−5.06th of 62
18–24
35.7%
−1.92nd of 62
25–34
39.2%
+1.62nd of 62
35–44
39.1%
+1.53rd of 62
45–54
41.1%
+3.62nd of 62
55–64
44.8%
+7.21st of 62
65 and over
49.5%
+11.91st of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 37.6%

Health by Gender

Women and men rank health almost equally often, at 37.9% and 37.9%.

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 health by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
37.9%
+0.32nd of 62
Men
37.9%
+0.31st of 62
Non-binary
21.2%
−16.318th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 37.6%

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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