Poverty & social inequality continues to be the greatest concern worldwide. We start the year with 61% globally saying that things in their country are heading in the wrong direction, up four points on 12 months ago.
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.
At 49.3, the Ipsos Global Consumer Confidence Index in May 2019 is up 0.3 point against last month, but still down 0.5 point over the past three months, and down 1.4 points over the past 12 months.
Consumer confidence up in France, Israel, and Spain; down in Latin America. The April 2019 reading of the Ipsos Global Consumer Confidence Index confirms a downward trend as it drops to 49.0. Over the past three months, the index has fallen by 0.9 point globally.
