Personal value statistics: Respect

Respect appeared in the ranked ten of 30.0% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 7th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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Respect

I want to be treated with respect. I don’t want to be treated as less than others.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 7th of 62 values.: 30.0%
First placeof assessments put it first. 16th of 62 on this measure.: 1.9%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 26% of those who rank it.: 7.8%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 5.5

In the overall ranking respect sits just below Love (32.5%) and just above Pleasure (30.0%).

How the Popularity of Respect Has Changed

In 2020 respect appeared in 28.8% of assessments and ranked 9th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 32.9% and ranked 7th, a rise of 4.1 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.

Respect, year by year

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

Respect 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	28.8%	9th	1.9%	7.6%	5.5
2021	224,096	27.9%	9th	1.7%	7.3%	5.5
2022	179,271	28.3%	9th	1.7%	7.2%	5.6
2023	397,249	28.4%	9th	1.7%	7.2%	5.6
2024	460,244	29.0%	9th	1.8%	7.4%	5.6
2025	449,233	32.3%	6th▲3	2.1%	8.6%	5.5
2026 so far	304,533	32.9%	7th▼1	2.3%	8.9%	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 September 2026.

Respect by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in the United Arab Emirates rank respect most often, at 42.8%, and those in Poland least often, at 16.3%.

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 respect is ranked most often

32.5% of participants rank respect in their top ten, from 42.8% in the United Arab Emirates to 16.3% in Poland. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

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Appearance rate of respect by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
United Arab Emirates	481	42.8%	+10.3	1st of 62
France	667	40.6%	+8.1	2nd of 62
Philippines	5,645	39.9%	+7.4	4th of 62
South Africa	2,608	37.7%	+5.2	4th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	37.6%	+5.1	3rd of 62
Mexico	941	37.1%	+4.6	3rd of 62
New Zealand	5,381	36.1%	+3.6	4th of 62
Australia	22,203	36.0%	+3.5	4th of 62
Switzerland	1,067	35.8%	+3.3	4th of 62
Ireland	385	34.5%	+2.0	4th of 62
Canada	18,667	34.0%	+1.5	5th of 62
Italy	564	33.7%	+1.2	5th of 62
India	7,202	33.7%	+1.1	5th of 62
Egypt	3,089	32.6%	+0.1	6th of 62
United States	154,508	32.1%	−0.4	7th of 62
Singapore	2,481	31.0%	−1.5	6th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	30.1%	−2.4	9th of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	29.9%	−2.6	6th of 62
Brazil	373	29.0%	−3.6	4th of 62
Malaysia	1,057	28.8%	−3.7	7th of 62
Indonesia	1,533	28.2%	−4.3	6th of 62
Romania	1,535	26.9%	−5.6	10th of 62
Germany	2,274	26.8%	−5.7	10th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	21.7%	−10.8	13th of 62
Poland	423	16.3%	−16.2	24th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 32.5%

Respect by Age

Respect is ranked less often with age, from 34.2% of assessments among participants under 18 to 26.0% among those 65 and over, about 1.2 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 respect by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	34.2%	+4.0	5th of 62
18–24	15,203	30.8%	+0.7	7th of 62
25–34	14,080	27.2%	−2.9	7th of 62
35–44	11,071	29.4%	−0.7	8th of 62
45–54	7,261	29.0%	−1.1	8th of 62
55–64	3,296	28.0%	−2.2	8th of 62
65 and over	1,098	26.0%	−4.2	8th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 30.2%

Respect by Gender

Men rank respect more often than women, by 0.9 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 respect by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	30.0%	−0.2	8th of 62
Men	25,478	30.9%	+0.7	5th of 62
Non-binary	1,210	20.3%	−9.9	20th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 30.2%

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 respect 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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