Employment

Like most people around the world, French workers value their job and find meaning in it but they suspect they won’t be able to work as long as they would like to.

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.

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.

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.

‘What Worries the World’? 58% believe their nation is on the wrong track – whilst concerns about unemployment continue to be a prominent worry.

Strongest gains in optimism observed in Argentina, Turkey, China, and France; Japan, Spain, India, and Sweden see significant drops.

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.