Personal value statistics: Tradition

Tradition appeared in the ranked ten of 4.9% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 59th most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

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Tradition

I value traditions and the ways things have always been done. I don’t feel comfortable breaking from them.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 59th of 62 values.: 4.9%
First placeof assessments put it first. 55th of 62 on this measure.: 0.3%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 21% of those who rank it.: 1.0%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 6.2

In the overall ranking tradition sits just below Influence (5.0%) and just above Authority (3.0%).

How the Popularity of Tradition Has Changed

In 2020 tradition appeared in 5.2% of assessments and ranked 56th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 4.7% and ranked 59th, a fall of 0.5 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.

Tradition, year by year

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

Tradition 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	5.2%	56th	0.3%	1.3%	5.9
2021	224,096	4.6%	59th▼3	0.2%	1.0%	6.1
2022	179,271	4.8%	59th	0.3%	1.1%	6.0
2023	397,249	4.8%	59th	0.3%	1.0%	6.1
2024	460,244	4.9%	58th▲1	0.2%	1.0%	6.1
2025	449,233	5.2%	57th▲1	0.3%	1.1%	6.3
2026 so far	304,533	4.7%	59th▼2	0.2%	0.9%	6.5

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.

Tradition by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in India rank tradition most often, at 7.3%, and those in Brazil least often, at 1.9%.

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 tradition is ranked most often

4.7% of participants rank tradition in their top ten, from 7.3% in India to 1.9% in Brazil. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

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Appearance rate of tradition by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
India	7,202	7.3%	+2.7	54th of 62
Italy	564	6.7%	+2.1	54th of 62
Ireland	385	6.5%	+1.8	52nd of 62
United Arab Emirates	481	6.2%	+1.6	58th of 62
Switzerland	1,067	5.9%	+1.3	54th of 62
France	667	5.2%	+0.6	57th of 62
South Africa	2,608	4.9%	+0.2	58th of 62
United States	154,508	4.8%	+0.2	58th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	4.8%	+0.2	60th of 62
Canada	18,667	4.8%	+0.1	58th of 62
Mexico	941	4.6%	−0.1	60th of 62
New Zealand	5,381	4.5%	−0.2	59th of 62
Singapore	2,481	4.4%	−0.3	60th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	4.3%	−0.3	56th of 62
Australia	22,203	4.3%	−0.3	59th of 62
Egypt	3,089	4.2%	−0.4	61st of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	4.2%	−0.5	59th of 62
Poland	423	3.5%	−1.1	59th of 62
Philippines	5,645	3.2%	−1.4	59th of 62
Netherlands	2,246	3.1%	−1.5	61st of 62
Germany	2,274	3.0%	−1.7	60th of 62
Romania	1,535	2.5%	−2.2	60th of 62
Malaysia	1,057	2.3%	−2.4	62nd of 62
Indonesia	1,533	2.2%	−2.5	61st of 62
Brazil	373	1.9%	−2.8	61st of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 4.7%

Tradition by Age

Tradition is ranked less often with age, from 5.3% of assessments among participants under 18 to 4.7% among those 65 and over, about 0.3 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 tradition by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	5.3%	+1.4	60th of 62
18–24	15,203	4.1%	+0.1	59th of 62
25–34	14,080	2.8%	−1.1	60th of 62
35–44	11,071	3.7%	−0.2	59th of 62
45–54	7,261	3.8%	−0.1	59th of 62
55–64	3,296	2.9%	−1.0	59th of 62
65 and over	1,098	4.7%	+0.8	59th of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 4.0%

Tradition by Gender

Men rank tradition more often than women, by 1.4 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 tradition by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	3.4%	−0.5	59th of 62
Men	25,478	4.8%	+0.9	59th of 62
Non-binary	1,210	2.6%	−1.3	62nd of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 3.9%

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 tradition 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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