Personal value statistics: Uniqueness

Uniqueness appeared in the ranked ten of 6.6% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 53rd most frequently ranked of the 62 core values.

What uniqueness means as a value →

Uniqueness

I like to stand out and be different from others. I don’t want to be like everyone else.

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At a glance, 2020 to 2026

Appearance rateof assessments rank it in their ten. 53rd of 62 values.: 6.6%
First placeof assessments put it first. 53rd of 62 on this measure.: 0.3%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 18% of those who rank it.: 1.2%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.: 6.4

In the overall ranking uniqueness sits just below Beauty (6.8%) and just above Excellence (5.9%).

How the Popularity of Uniqueness Has Changed

In 2020 uniqueness appeared in 7.0% of assessments and ranked 51st. In 2026 so far it appeared in 7.8% and ranked 54th, a rise of 0.8 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.

Uniqueness, year by year

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

Uniqueness 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	7.0%	51st	0.3%	1.2%	6.4
2021	224,096	7.1%	51st	0.4%	1.4%	6.2
2022	179,271	6.7%	51st	0.3%	1.2%	6.3
2023	397,249	6.3%	52nd▼1	0.3%	1.2%	6.3
2024	460,244	6.2%	53rd▼1	0.3%	1.2%	6.3
2025	449,233	6.2%	53rd	0.3%	1.0%	6.5
2026 so far	304,533	7.8%	54th▼1	0.3%	1.3%	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.

Uniqueness by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in the United Arab Emirates rank uniqueness most often, at 12.7%, and those in Ireland least often, at 5.5%.

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 uniqueness is ranked most often

7.7% of participants rank uniqueness in their top ten, from 12.7% in the United Arab Emirates to 5.5% in Ireland. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

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Appearance rate of uniqueness by country, December 2025 to September 2026
Country	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
United Arab Emirates	481	12.7%	+5.0	33rd of 62
Switzerland	1,067	10.0%	+2.3	41st of 62
Egypt	3,089	10.0%	+2.3	37th of 62
India	7,202	9.9%	+2.2	45th of 62
Poland	423	9.7%	+2.0	39th of 62
Saudi Arabia	768	9.1%	+1.4	47th of 62
Malaysia	1,057	8.6%	+0.9	54th of 62
Indonesia	1,533	8.5%	+0.8	53rd of 62
Brazil	373	8.3%	+0.6	52nd of 62
South Africa	2,608	8.2%	+0.5	52nd of 62
Italy	564	8.2%	+0.5	47th of 62
Mexico	941	8.1%	+0.4	52nd of 62
Netherlands	2,246	7.7%	+0.1	51st of 62
United States	154,508	7.6%	−0.1	54th of 62
New Zealand	5,381	7.4%	−0.3	54th of 62
Romania	1,535	7.2%	−0.5	53rd of 62
Australia	22,203	7.2%	−0.5	55th of 62
Canada	18,667	7.0%	−0.7	55th of 62
Singapore	2,481	6.9%	−0.8	53rd of 62
United Kingdom	13,561	6.6%	−1.1	53rd of 62
Philippines	5,645	6.5%	−1.2	53rd of 62
Germany	2,274	6.4%	−1.3	55th of 62
France	667	6.0%	−1.7	55th of 62
Hong Kong SAR China	369	6.0%	−1.7	53rd of 62
Ireland	385	5.5%	−2.2	56th of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 7.7%

Uniqueness by Age

Uniqueness is ranked less often with age, from 9.8% of assessments among participants under 18 to 7.4% among those 65 and over, about 0.9 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 uniqueness by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
Age	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Under 18	14,615	9.8%	+1.7	47th of 62
18–24	15,203	9.1%	+1.1	49th of 62
25–34	14,080	8.0%	+0.0	52nd of 62
35–44	11,071	6.6%	−1.4	55th of 62
45–54	7,261	5.7%	−2.4	57th of 62
55–64	3,296	5.3%	−2.7	56th of 62
65 and over	1,098	7.4%	−0.7	53rd of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 8.0%

Uniqueness by Gender

Women and men rank uniqueness almost equally often, at 7.8% and 7.8%.

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 uniqueness by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
Gender	Assessments	Appearance rate	vs average (pp)	Rank there
Women	37,968	7.8%	−0.2	54th of 62
Men	25,478	7.8%	−0.2	55th of 62
Non-binary	1,210	18.0%	+10.0	25th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 8.0%

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 uniqueness 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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