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Personal value statistics: Security

Security appeared in the ranked ten of 24.6% of the 2,131,634 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 11th 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. 11th of 62 values.
24.6%
First placeof assessments put it first. 8th of 62 on this measure.
2.9%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 39% of those who rank it.
9.6%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
4.9

In the overall ranking security sits just below Friendship (24.9%) and just above Growth (24.6%).

How the Popularity of Security Has Changed

In 2020 security appeared in 25.0% of assessments and ranked 10th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 19.7% and ranked 18th, a fall of 5.3 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.

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.

Security by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37825.0%10th3.0%10.1%4.7
2021224,09625.0%10th3.1%10.3%4.7
2022179,27125.6%10th3.2%10.6%4.7
2023397,24925.7%10th3.2%10.4%4.7
2024460,24425.7%10th3.2%10.4%4.8
2025449,23325.6%10th2.9%9.7%5.0
2026 so far337,16319.7%18th▼81.9%6.5%5.4

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.

Security by Country

Of the 26 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Poland rank security most often, at 28.1%, and those in Vietnam least often, at 11.9%.

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 security is ranked most often

20.1% of participants rank security in their top ten, from 28.1% in Poland to 11.9% in Vietnam. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 11–14%
  • 14–17%
  • 17–20%
  • 20–23%
  • 23–26%
  • 26–29%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of security by country, December 2025 to October 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Poland
28.1%
+7.910th of 62
Egypt
25.5%
+5.411th of 62
Saudi Arabia
22.6%
+2.513th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
22.5%
+2.412th of 62
United Kingdom
22.5%
+2.415th of 62
Philippines
22.1%
+2.012th of 62
South Africa
21.9%
+1.813th of 62
Romania
21.8%
+1.714th of 62
Ireland
21.1%
+0.916th of 62
Germany
20.6%
+0.516th of 62
Singapore
20.6%
+0.515th of 62
Italy
20.4%
+0.315th of 62
Canada
20.2%
+0.118th of 62
United States
20.1%
−0.017th of 62
Australia
19.4%
−0.718th of 62
Brazil
18.2%
−1.923rd of 62
Indonesia
18.1%
−2.022nd of 62
India
18.1%
−2.120th of 62
United Arab Emirates
17.7%
−2.519th of 62
Netherlands
16.9%
−3.222nd of 62
New Zealand
16.7%
−3.521st of 62
Switzerland
15.9%
−4.227th of 62
Mexico
15.2%
−4.928th of 62
Malaysia
13.8%
−6.332nd of 62
France
12.2%
−7.933rd of 62
Vietnam
11.9%
−8.237th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 20.1%

Security by Age

Security is ranked more often with age, from 16.0% of assessments among participants under 18 to 20.8% among those 65 and over, about 1.0 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 security by age band, December 2025 to October 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
16.0%
−3.126th of 62
18–24
18.3%
−0.921st of 62
25–34
20.9%
+1.815th of 62
35–44
20.6%
+1.515th of 62
45–54
20.5%
+1.416th of 62
55–64
20.7%
+1.618th of 62
65 and over
20.8%
+1.615th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 19.1%

Security by Gender

Women rank security more often than men, by 5.3 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 security by gender, December 2025 to October 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
21.2%
+2.117th of 62
Men
15.9%
−3.224th of 62
Non-binary
19.8%
+0.822nd of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 19.1%

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 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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