Employment

Overall levels of concern about Coronavirus remain steady worldwide, but the underlying picture is unstable. Worries about Covid-19 are rising in a number of countries, while starting to decline in others.

Global concern about Coronavirus is once more on the increase. We approach the end of the year with almost two-thirds across 27 nations saying that things in their country are on the wrong track.

Six months of data reveal how Coronavirus has shaped countries’ concerns.

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.

The everyday concerns of the global population are the focus of one of Ipsos’ flagship global surveys. Each month we ask an online sample of over 18,000 citizens in more than 25 countries1 about the key issues they believe are facing their country, asking them to pick up to three from a diverse array of topics, ranging from unemployment to access to credit.