More people globally see racial, ethnic discrimination as a serious problem in the U.S. than in their own society

Concerns about racial and ethnic discrimination are widespread in most of the 17 advanced economies surveyed by Pew Research Center this spring. Majorities in 14 publics say racial discrimination is a problem in their own society, including around three-quarters or more in Italy, France, Sweden, Germany, and the United States.

But even as sizable majorities see racial and ethnic discrimination as a serious problem, even bigger majorities see it as an issue in the United States. A median of 89% across the 16 non-U.S. publics surveyed describe racial discrimination in the United States as a somewhat or very serious problem. That includes at least nine-in-ten in New Zealand, South Korea, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden.