Conducted monthly in 29 countries among 20,000 adults for over a decade, the Ipsos What Worries the World study offers an exceptional snapshot of world opinion on pressing global issues.
This 31-country study tracks how people around the world see crime playing out in their communities, what they want governments to do, and how much trust they have in law enforcement.
For Bulgaria, the year 2023 was marked by the burning issues of politics and media, road rage incidents, and domestic abuse. While the war in Ukraine, COVID-19, and rising inflation seem to have taken the back seat against this turbulent background, the overall sense of crisis remains.
Despite being located in the corner of the planet and isolated by its natural borders, Chile is not immune to the upheavals that the world is experiencing. On the contrary, the high adoption of new technology and an economy that has been open to the world for decades makes us susceptible to this generalized uncertainty. In addition, internally we have been going through a process of social, political and economic instability since October 2019 – which remains unresolved.
A few miles off the coast of Vietnam, the Philippines is an archipelago in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. The people are warm, full of hospitality and the lands are lush surrounded with sandy beaches and twinkling oceans. Amidst the scenic background, 2023 greeted the country with several challenges – notably, a barrage of data breaches and towards the latter half of the year, natural disasters hinting to the increasing effects of climate change.
