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Personal value statistics: Security

Security appeared in the ranked ten of 24.8% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 10th 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. 10th of 62 values.
24.8%
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.
9.7%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
4.9

In the overall ranking security sits just below Freedom (28.0%) and just above Friendship (24.7%).

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 20.3% and ranked 16th, a fall of 4.7 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 far304,53320.3%16th▼62.0%6.8%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 September 2026.

Security by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Poland rank security most often, at 29.3%, and those in France least often, at 12.6%.

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 security is ranked most often

20.7% of participants rank security in their top ten, from 29.3% in Poland to 12.6% in France. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 12–15%
  • 15–18%
  • 18–21%
  • 21–24%
  • 24–27%
  • 27–30%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of security by country, December 2025 to September 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Poland
29.3%
+8.610th of 62
Egypt
27.0%
+6.39th of 62
United Kingdom
23.9%
+3.215th of 62
Ireland
23.6%
+2.914th of 62
Saudi Arabia
23.3%
+2.613th of 62
Singapore
22.6%
+1.913th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
22.5%
+1.812th of 62
Philippines
22.3%
+1.612th of 62
South Africa
22.1%
+1.413th of 62
Romania
22.1%
+1.414th of 62
Germany
21.2%
+0.415th of 62
Canada
20.9%
+0.217th of 62
United States
20.6%
−0.116th of 62
Italy
20.4%
−0.315th of 62
Australia
19.9%
−0.818th of 62
Indonesia
18.6%
−2.120th of 62
India
18.2%
−2.520th of 62
Brazil
18.2%
−2.523rd of 62
United Arab Emirates
17.9%
−2.820th of 62
Netherlands
17.2%
−3.521st of 62
New Zealand
17.1%
−3.621st of 62
Mexico
17.0%
−3.723rd of 62
Switzerland
16.8%
−3.924th of 62
Malaysia
13.5%
−7.234th of 62
France
12.6%
−8.131st of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 20.7%

Security by Age

Security is ranked more often with age, from 16.5% of assessments among participants under 18 to 21.2% among those 65 and over, about 1.0 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 security by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
16.5%
−3.124th of 62
18–24
18.8%
−0.820th of 62
25–34
21.5%
+1.916th of 62
35–44
21.1%
+1.515th of 62
45–54
20.9%
+1.315th of 62
55–64
21.0%
+1.318th of 62
65 and over
21.2%
+1.615th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 19.6%

Security by Gender

Women rank security more often than men, by 5.1 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 security by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
21.6%
+2.015th of 62
Men
16.6%
−3.022nd of 62
Non-binary
19.8%
+0.222nd of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 19.6%

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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