Dissatisfaction with democracy remains widespread in many nations
Across 12 high-income countries, a median of 64% of adults say they are dissatisfied with the way their democracy is working, while a median of 35% are satisfied.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Across 12 high-income countries, a median of 64% of adults say they are dissatisfied with the way their democracy is working, while a median of 35% are satisfied.
The share of people who retain their childhood religious identity in adulthood varies across religious categories.
Explore how adults in the U.S. and 35 other countries compare religiously and spiritually when it comes to affiliation, prayer, afterlife beliefs and more.
Ahead of the June 2025 NATO summit, international views of Putin and Russia remain negative, while Zelenskyy gets mixed ratings overall.
Americans have more favorable views of the other G7 countries than people in these countries do of the U.S.
More than half of adults in 19 of 24 countries surveyed lack confidence in Trump’s leadership on the world stage.
From 2010 to 2020, the number of Muslims increased by 347 million people to 2.0 billion people.
Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed.
Find how many and what percent of people in 201 countries and territories identify with each religious group, and how diverse these places are as of 2010 and 2020.
21% of Israelis think Israel and a Palestinian state can coexist peacefully, the lowest share since 2013.
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