Society

This month’s edition of Ipsos Update features the latest research and thinking from Ipsos around the world on creativity and innovation, NATO, Gen Z in MENA and in-depth reports from Australia, Brazil, Russia and the UK.

Looking back at what Ipsos research and analysis has told us about the world in the past year.

Majority across 28 countries are globally satisfied with national infrastructure.

Being hacked and facing nuclear/chemical attacks are seen as the biggest threats around the world.

52% say U.S. will have a positive influence globally – up 2% from 2018, down 13% from 2015. 53% say China will have a positive influence in the world – unchanged from 2015. People divided over whether they should follow the U.S.’s or China’s economic & political model.

Half of the 24 economies surveyed show a significant three-month decline in their Consumer Confidence Index.

Less than a third of people think Europe is a safer place since the fall of the wall.

New research to support the launch of King’s College London’s World Questions event series, which begins with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Julia Gillard on 13 November, reveals public perceptions of what helps or hinders women’s equality around the world.

Globally, just 39% think their country is heading in the right direction. The top worries globally are unemployment, crime/violence, financial/political corruption and poverty/social inequality.