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Personal value statistics: Justice

Justice appeared in the ranked ten of 13.8% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 34th 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. 34th of 62 values.
13.8%
First placeof assessments put it first. 29th of 62 on this measure.
1.1%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 25% of those who rank it.
3.4%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
6.0

In the overall ranking justice sits just below Intelligence (14.0%) and just above Equality (13.3%).

How the Popularity of Justice Has Changed

In 2020 justice appeared in 16.3% of assessments and ranked 27th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 13.0% and ranked 36th, a fall of 3.3 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.

Justice, year by year

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

Justice by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37816.3%27th1.4%4.3%5.9
2021224,09615.4%30th▼31.2%3.8%6.1
2022179,27114.2%33rd▼31.1%3.4%6.1
2023397,24913.9%32nd▲11.0%3.2%6.2
2024460,24413.7%32nd1.0%3.2%6.2
2025449,23312.8%35th▼31.1%3.3%5.9
2026 so far337,16313.0%36th▼11.2%3.9%5.5

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.

Justice by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Brazil rank justice most often, at 21.7%, and those in India least often, at 10.5%.

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 justice is ranked most often

13.0% of participants rank justice in their top ten, from 21.7% in Brazil to 10.5% in India. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 10–12%
  • 12–14%
  • 14–16%
  • 16–18%
  • 18–20%
  • 20–22%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of justice by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Brazil
21.7%
+8.718th of 62
Mexico
18.5%
+5.419th of 62
Saudi Arabia
18.2%
+5.119th of 62
Italy
17.9%
+4.920th of 62
France
16.7%
+3.726th of 62
United Kingdom
16.5%
+3.523rd of 62
Germany
16.5%
+3.426th of 62
Switzerland
16.1%
+3.026th of 62
Netherlands
15.7%
+2.726th of 62
Ireland
15.5%
+2.527th of 62
Romania
14.7%
+1.628th of 62
New Zealand
14.7%
+1.633rd of 62
Australia
14.5%
+1.429th of 62
United Arab Emirates
14.4%
+1.328th of 62
Malaysia
13.7%
+0.734th of 62
Canada
13.5%
+0.434th of 62
Poland
13.2%
+0.134th of 62
Indonesia
12.6%
−0.541st of 62
United States
12.1%
−0.940th of 62
Philippines
12.0%
−1.035th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
11.9%
−1.135th of 62
Vietnam
11.9%
−1.137th of 62
South Africa
11.9%
−1.238th of 62
Egypt
11.8%
−1.235th of 62
Singapore
11.8%
−1.238th of 62
India
10.5%
−2.642nd of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 13.0%

Justice by Age

Justice is ranked more often with age, from 13.4% of assessments among participants under 18 to 14.3% among those 65 and over, about 0.7 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 justice by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
13.4%
−1.333rd of 62
18–24
13.4%
−1.337th of 62
25–34
15.2%
+0.428th of 62
35–44
16.0%
+1.324th of 62
45–54
15.8%
+1.125th of 62
55–64
17.7%
+3.022nd of 62
65 and over
14.3%
−0.431st of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 14.7%

Justice by Gender

Women rank justice more often than men, by 1.5 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 justice by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
15.1%
+0.429th of 62
Men
13.6%
−1.135th of 62
Non-binary
23.3%
+8.614th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 14.7%

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 justice 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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