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Personal value statistics: Wisdom

Wisdom appeared in the ranked ten of 15.6% of the 2,099,004 assessments completed since 2020, which makes it the 25th 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. 25th of 62 values.
15.6%
First placeof assessments put it first. 26th of 62 on this measure.
1.3%
Top threeof assessments put it in the top three. 27% of those who rank it.
4.2%
Average positionis its mean position, out of ten, where it is ranked at all.
5.7

In the overall ranking wisdom sits just below Accountability (17.1%) and just above Ethics (15.5%).

How the Popularity of Wisdom Has Changed

In 2020 wisdom appeared in 16.9% of assessments and ranked 25th. In 2026 so far it appeared in 12.0% and ranked 42nd, a fall of 4.9 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.

Wisdom, year by year

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

Wisdom by year: assessments, appearance rate and rank, first place, top three and average position
YearAssessmentsAppearance rateRankFirst placeTop threeAverage position
202084,37816.9%25th1.5%4.5%5.7
2021224,09617.3%21st▲41.4%4.6%5.7
2022179,27116.2%26th▼51.3%4.3%5.7
2023397,24916.6%25th▲11.4%4.4%5.7
2024460,24416.7%25th1.4%4.4%5.7
2025449,23314.6%28th▼31.3%4.1%5.6
2026 so far304,53312.0%42nd▼141.0%3.4%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.

Wisdom by Country

Of the 25 countries with enough assessments to publish, participants in Poland rank wisdom most often, at 18.9%, and those in France least often, at 6.6%.

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 wisdom is ranked most often

12.2% of participants rank wisdom in their top ten, from 18.9% in Poland to 6.6% in France. Tap or hover a country to see its top values.

  • 6–8%
  • 8–10%
  • 10–13%
  • 13–15%
  • 15–17%
  • 17–19%
  • too few assessments
Appearance rate of wisdom by country, December 2025 to September 2026
CountryAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Poland
18.9%
+6.719th of 62
South Africa
15.9%
+3.723rd of 62
Philippines
15.7%
+3.625th of 62
Malaysia
15.6%
+3.426th of 62
Romania
15.4%
+3.326th of 62
Indonesia
14.4%
+2.232nd of 62
Hong Kong SAR China
13.6%
+1.428th of 62
Saudi Arabia
13.3%
+1.130th of 62
Germany
13.2%
+1.037th of 62
Singapore
12.9%
+0.735th of 62
United States
12.1%
−0.139th of 62
Canada
11.8%
−0.440th of 62
Brazil
11.8%
−0.442nd of 62
Australia
11.5%
−0.741st of 62
United Arab Emirates
11.4%
−0.838th of 62
Netherlands
11.4%
−0.840th of 62
Mexico
11.4%
−0.840th of 62
United Kingdom
10.8%
−1.443rd of 62
India
10.2%
−2.043rd of 62
Italy
10.1%
−2.143rd of 62
New Zealand
9.7%
−2.545th of 62
Switzerland
9.7%
−2.544th of 62
Egypt
9.6%
−2.541st of 62
Ireland
8.8%
−3.447th of 62
France
6.6%
−5.653rd of 62

Every assessment with a known country, 12.2%

Wisdom by Age

Wisdom is ranked more often with age, from 10.3% of assessments among participants under 18 to 18.2% among those 65 and over, about 1.3 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 wisdom by age band, December 2025 to September 2026
AgeAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Under 18
10.3%
−2.945th of 62
18–24
12.1%
−1.142nd of 62
25–34
14.2%
+1.031st of 62
35–44
13.9%
+0.731st of 62
45–54
15.5%
+2.326th of 62
55–64
17.2%
+4.023rd of 62
65 and over
18.2%
+5.121st of 62

Everyone who gave an age, 13.2%

Wisdom by Gender

Men rank wisdom more often than women, by 3.0 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 wisdom by gender, December 2025 to September 2026
GenderAppearance ratevs average (pp)Rank there
Women
12.0%
−1.239th of 62
Men
15.0%
+1.827th of 62
Non-binary
12.5%
−0.737th of 62

Everyone who gave a gender, 13.2%

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 wisdom 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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