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Personal value statistics: Job security

Job security appeared in the ranked ten of 13.2% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 36th 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. 36th of 62 values.
13.2%
First placeof assessments put it first. 37th of 62 on this measure.
0.7%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 27% of those who rank it.
3.6%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
5.5

In the overall ranking job security sits just below Equality (13.3%) and just above Challenge (12.7%).

How the Popularity of Job security Has Changed

In 2020 job security appeared in 12.9% of assessments and ranked 38th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 11.9% and ranked 41st, a fall of 1.0 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.

Job security, year by year

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

Job security by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37812.9%38th0.7%3.5%5.5
2021224,09612.9%38th0.7%3.5%5.4
2022179,27112.9%36th▲20.7%3.4%5.5
2023397,24913.6%34th▲20.8%3.7%5.4
2024460,24413.7%33rd▲10.7%3.7%5.4
2025449,23313.6%31st▲20.8%3.7%5.5
2026 so far337,16311.9%41st▼100.8%3.2%5.7

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.

Job security by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in India rank job security most often, at 16.5%, and those in France least often, at 6.5%.

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 job security is ranked most often

12.1% of participants rank job security in their top ten, from 16.5% in India to 6.5% in France. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 6–8%
  • 8–10%
  • 10–12%
  • 12–13%
  • 13–15%
  • 15–17%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of job security by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
India
16.5%
+4.423rd of 62
Singapore
15.9%
+3.827th of 62
Egypt
15.6%
+3.427th of 62
Poland
15.3%
+3.229th of 62
Vietnam
15.1%
+3.027th of 62
Saudi Arabia
14.7%
+2.628th of 62
Romania
14.1%
+2.029th of 62
South Africa
14.0%
+1.932nd of 62
United Kingdom
14.0%
+1.931st of 62
Philippines
13.7%
+1.630th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
13.0%
+0.931st of 62
United States
12.3%
+0.239th of 62
Canada
12.2%
+0.139th of 62
Malaysia
11.7%
−0.445th of 62
Australia
10.4%
−1.744th of 62
Germany
10.2%
−1.944th of 62
United Arab Emirates
9.6%
−2.551st of 62
Indonesia
9.5%
−2.649th of 62
Ireland
9.4%
−2.748th of 62
Italy
9.4%
−2.746th of 62
New Zealand
8.9%
−3.248th of 62
Brazil
8.6%
−3.550th of 62
Mexico
7.7%
−4.454th of 62
Netherlands
7.4%
−4.752nd of 62
Switzerland
6.9%
−5.353rd of 62
France
6.5%
−5.753rd of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 12.1%

Job security by Age

Job security holds roughly level across the age bands, from 10.9% among participants under 18 to 6.4% among those 65 and over.

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 job security by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
10.9%
−1.443rd of 62
18–24
12.5%
+0.239th of 62
25–34
12.1%
−0.240th of 62
35–44
13.7%
+1.531st of 62
45–54
14.2%
+1.932nd of 62
55–64
11.2%
−1.141st of 62
65 and over
6.4%
−5.856th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 12.3%

Job security by Gender

Men rank job security more often than women, by 1.2 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 job security by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
11.8%
−0.442nd of 62
Men
13.0%
+0.840th of 62
Non-binary
9.3%
−2.946th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 12.2%

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 job security 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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