Personal value statistics: Pleasure

Pleasure appeared in the ranked ten of 30.0% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 8th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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Pleasure

I enjoy things that feel good and pleasant. I don’t want to feel discomfort.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 8th of 62 values.: 30.0%
First placeof assessments put it first. 10th of 62 on this measure.: 2.4%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 30% of those who rank it.: 9.0%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 5.3

In the overall ranking pleasure sits just below Respect (30.0%) and just above Freedom (28.0%).

How the Popularity of Pleasure Has Changed

In 2020 pleasure appeared in 32.2% of assessments and ranked 5th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 22.3% and ranked 13th, a fall of 9.9 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.

Pleasure, year by year

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

Pleasure by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
Year	Assessments	Appearance rate	Rank	First place	Top three	Average position
2020	84,378	32.2%	5th	3.0%	10.5%	5.1
2021	224,096	32.4%	6th▼1	3.0%	10.7%	5.1
2022	179,271	32.3%	6th	2.8%	10.5%	5.1
2023	397,249	31.4%	7th▼1	2.7%	9.8%	5.2
2024	460,244	30.9%	7th	2.5%	9.4%	5.3
2025	449,233	30.4%	8th▼1	2.2%	8.4%	5.5
2026 so far	304,533	22.3%	13th▼5	1.4%	5.4%	5.9

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.

Pleasure by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Egypt rank pleasure most often, at 33.8%, and those in Brazil least often, at 11.8%.

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 pleasure is ranked most often

22.8% of participants rank pleasure in their top ten, from 33.8% in Egypt to 11.8% in Brazil. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

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Appearance rate of pleasure by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Egypt	3,089	33.8%	+11.0	5th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	33.6%	+10.8	9th of 62
Poland	423	31.9%	+9.1	7th of 62
Singapore	2,481	29.5%	+6.7	7th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	28.8%	+6.0	11th of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	28.1%	+5.3	8th of 62
Ireland	385	27.5%	+4.7	9th of 62
France	667	27.4%	+4.6	11th of 62
Indonesia	1,533	27.1%	+4.3	7th of 62
Italy	564	25.7%	+2.9	11th of 62
Germany	2,274	24.7%	+1.9	13th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	24.5%	+1.7	11th of 62
Canada	18,667	23.9%	+1.1	11th of 62
Romania	1,535	23.5%	+0.7	11th of 62
Switzerland	1,067	22.7%	−0.1	15th of 62
Australia	22,203	22.4%	−0.4	14th of 62
New Zealand	5,381	21.9%	−0.9	15th of 62
United States	154,508	21.6%	−1.2	13th of 62
India	7,202	20.7%	−2.1	15th of 62
Philippines	5,645	20.6%	−2.2	15th of 62
Malaysia	1,057	19.6%	−3.2	16th of 62
South Africa	2,608	18.8%	−4.0	19th of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	18.1%	−4.7	19th of 62
Mexico	941	16.2%	−6.7	26th of 62
Brazil	373	11.8%	−11.0	42nd of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 22.8%

Pleasure by Age

Pleasure is ranked less often with age, from 19.3% of assessments among participants under 18 to 19.6% among those 65 and over, about 0.5 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 pleasure by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	19.3%	−0.7	18th of 62
18–24	15,203	21.7%	+1.7	13th of 62
25–34	14,080	21.6%	+1.6	15th of 62
35–44	11,071	19.2%	−0.8	20th of 62
45–54	7,261	17.4%	−2.5	21st of 62
55–64	3,296	16.7%	−3.2	24th of 62
65 and over	1,098	19.6%	−0.4	20th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 20.0%

Pleasure by Gender

Women and men rank pleasure almost equally often, at 19.7% and 20.1%.

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 pleasure by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	19.7%	−0.3	19th of 62
Men	25,478	20.1%	+0.2	18th of 62
Non-binary	1,210	24.7%	+4.8	13th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 19.9%

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 pleasure 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.

Statistics for every value

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