Social Trust by country
Share of adults who agree that most people can be trusted (higher = healthier).
Global trend
Mean stress score across all countries for which data is available, over the last 12 months.
Where the pressure is concentrated
The five most-affected and five least-affected countries on this indicator right now.
Least affected
- 1Norway72.0 %0
- 2Netherlands64.0 %12
- 3Sweden63.0 %14
- 4New Zealand58.0 %24
- 5Switzerland56.0 %28
Full ranking
All 25 tracked countries, ordered from most to least affected. Click any country to see its full composite breakdown.
| # | Country | Raw value | Stress score | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Argentina | 18.0 % | 100.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 2 | Brazil | 7.00 % | 100.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 3 | India | 17.0 % | 100.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 4 | Mexico | 14.0 % | 100.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 5 | Turkey | 12.0 % | 100.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 6 | Poland | 24.0 % | 92.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 7 | South Africa | 24.0 % | 92.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 8 | France | 26.0 % | 88.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 9 | Italy | 26.0 % | 88.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 10 | UAE | 27.0 % | 86.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 11 | South Korea | 28.0 % | 84.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 12 | Israel | 33.0 % | 74.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 13 | Spain | 35.0 % | 70.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 14 | Japan | 36.0 % | 68.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 15 | United States | 37.0 % | 66.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 16 | United Kingdom | 42.0 % | 56.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 17 | Singapore | 44.0 % | 52.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 18 | Canada | 45.0 % | 50.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 19 | Germany | 45.0 % | 50.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 20 | Australia | 47.0 % | 46.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 21 | Switzerland | 56.0 % | 28.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 22 | New Zealand | 58.0 % | 24.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 23 | Sweden | 63.0 % | 14.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 24 | Netherlands | 64.0 % | 12.0 | 2023-12-31 |
| 25 | Norway | 72.0 % | 0.0 | 2023-12-31 |
Why it matters
Social Trust is a contributing indicator to the Social meta-index, one of the five dimensions of The Human Index composite. Higher raw value = less stress.
Movements in this indicator are tracked daily and feed into every country's composite score on the next cron cycle.
Recent analysis
All Pulses →Source & methodology
Raw values are normalized to a 0–100 stress scale per the bounds documented in the codebase. See methodology for the full normalization and band-threshold derivation.