Employment

The world is now split on whether coronavirus or unemployment is the most worrying issue facing their country today.

Ipsos recent study shows as Covid-19 cases are slowly decreasing in Malaysia, concerns for unemployment rise and conservative spending amongst Malaysians continues.

COVID-19 overtakes all other issues in Ipsos’ What Worries the World survey with the highest level of concern recorded for any category since the series began.

Globally, just 39% think their country is heading in the right direction; 61% say things are off on the wrong track. The top worries globally are Poverty/Social inequality, Unemployment, Crime and Violence and Financial/Political corruption.

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.

Corruption, inequality overtook unemployment as the No.1 global worry in 2017: poll.

What Worries the World is a Global Advisor survey in 28 countries. tracking whether people think their country is on the right/wrong track and what their top concerns are. This quicklinks document provides the latest global summary of the survey findings and links to the full decks for each country, in different languages.

Close to one year after the 14th General Election, Malaysians believe the country is moving in the wrong direction, as their main worries shift from Corruption to day-to-day issues like Crime and Inflation & Cost of Living.

The latest ‘What Worries The World’ survey, found that from June to July last year, Malaysians who believe that the country was heading in the wrong direction was at 25%.

Three months later, the figure rose to 36% and it currently has risen to 43% as of March this year.