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Personal value statistics: Job security

Job security appeared in the ranked ten of 13.2% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 35th 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. 35th 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 Justice (13.7%) and just above Equality (13.2%).

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 12.1% and ranked 40th, a fall of 0.8 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 far304,53312.1%40th▼90.8%3.3%5.6

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.

Job security by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in India rank job security most often, at 16.7%, and those in France least often, at 6.7%.

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 job security is ranked most often

12.3% of participants rank job security in their top ten, from 16.7% in India to 6.7% 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 September 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
India
16.7%
+4.423rd of 62
Egypt
16.6%
+4.326th of 62
Singapore
16.4%
+4.125th of 62
Poland
16.3%
+4.024th of 62
Saudi Arabia
15.0%
+2.729th of 62
Romania
14.5%
+2.228th of 62
United Kingdom
14.2%
+1.929th of 62
South Africa
14.2%
+1.932nd of 62
Philippines
13.8%
+1.529th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
13.0%
+0.731st of 62
United States
12.5%
+0.238th of 62
Canada
12.4%
+0.138th of 62
Malaysia
11.6%
−0.745th of 62
Australia
10.5%
−1.844th of 62
United Arab Emirates
10.4%
−1.945th of 62
Ireland
10.4%
−1.942nd of 62
Germany
10.2%
−2.144th of 62
Indonesia
9.9%
−2.448th of 62
Italy
9.4%
−2.946th of 62
New Zealand
8.7%
−3.648th of 62
Brazil
8.6%
−3.750th of 62
Netherlands
7.8%
−4.549th of 62
Mexico
7.8%
−4.554th of 62
Switzerland
7.0%
−5.353rd of 62
France
6.7%
−5.550th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 12.3%

Job security by Age

Job security holds roughly level across the age bands, from 11.1% among participants under 18 to 6.5% among those 65 and over.

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 job security by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
11.1%
−1.542nd of 62
18–24
12.8%
+0.339th of 62
25–34
12.4%
−0.140th of 62
35–44
14.1%
+1.530th of 62
45–54
14.3%
+1.832nd of 62
55–64
11.7%
−0.941st of 62
65 and over
6.5%
−6.156th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 12.6%

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 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 job security by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
12.1%
−0.438th of 62
Men
13.3%
+0.836th of 62
Non-binary
9.3%
−3.245th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 12.5%

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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