🫂 Trust in others by country

Name: Trust in others by country
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110 countries ranked · Our World in Data · 1998–2022

Which country is the most trusting?

The most trusting countries in the world: 1. Denmark (73.9%), 2. Norway (72.1%), 3. Finland (68.4%).

The middle of the table sits at 21.1% (Maldives, no. 55 of 110), which is the figure to measure the top against.

The top 10

🇩🇰Denmark 73.9%
🇳🇴Norway 72.1%
🇫🇮Finland 68.4%
🇨🇳China 63.5%
🇸🇪Sweden 62.8%
🇮🇸Iceland 62.3%
🇨🇭Switzerland 58.5%
🇳🇱Netherlands 57%
🇳🇿New Zealand 56.6%
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia 50.5%

Which country is the least trusting?

The least trusting countries in this table, from the very last row upwards: Zimbabwe (2.1%), then Albania (2.8%) and Peru (4.2%).

The same ranking, as a map

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Trust in others, 110 countries, shaded by rank. Source: Our World in Data · data 1998–2022. Projection: Equal Earth, so every country's area is honestly proportioned.

The full ranking of all 110 countries

Trust in others · 1998–2022
#	Country	Trust in others
1	🇩🇰Denmark	73.9%
2	🇳🇴Norway	72.1%
3	🇫🇮Finland	68.4%
4	🇨🇳China	63.5%
5	🇸🇪Sweden	62.8%
6	🇮🇸Iceland	62.3%
7	🇨🇭Switzerland	58.5%
8	🇳🇱Netherlands	57%
9	🇳🇿New Zealand	56.6%
10	🇸🇦Saudi Arabia	50.5%
11	🇦🇹Austria	49.8%
12	🇦🇺Australia	48.5%
13	🇨🇦Canada	46.7%
14	🇬🇧United Kingdom	43.3%
15	🇩🇪Germany	41.6%
16	🇪🇸Spain	41%
17	🇧🇾Belarus	40%
18	🇾🇪Yemen	38.5%
19	🇮🇪Ireland	37.3%
20	🇺🇸United States	37%
21	🇧🇪Belgium	35.7%
22	🇸🇬Singapore	34.4%
23	🇪🇪Estonia	33.9%
24	🇯🇵Japan	33.7%
25	🇺🇿Uzbekistan	33.6%
26	🇰🇷South Korea	32.9%
27	🇱🇹Lithuania	31.7%
28	🇱🇺Luxembourg	31.4%
29	🇹🇼Taiwan	30.8%
30	🇹🇭Thailand	28.9%
31	🇰🇼Kuwait	28.6%
32	🇺🇦Ukraine	28.4%
33	🇻🇳Vietnam	27.7%
34	🇨🇿Czechia	27.3%
35	🇭🇺Hungary	27.1%
36	🇮🇹Italy	26.6%
37	🇦🇿Azerbaijan	26.3%
38	🇫🇷France	26.3%
39	🇲🇳Mongolia	26%
40	🇦🇩Andorra	25.5%
41	🇸🇮Slovenia	25.3%
42	🇩🇴Dominican Republic	25.2%
43	🇵🇱Poland	24.1%
44	🇵🇰Pakistan	23.3%
45	🇿🇦South Africa	23.3%
46	🇷🇺Russia	22.9%
47	🇮🇱Israel	22.9%
48	🇰🇿Kazakhstan	22.8%
49	🇱🇻Latvia	22.2%
50	🇲🇪Montenegro	21.7%
51	🇸🇰Slovakia	21.6%
52	🇶🇦Qatar	21.4%
53	🇭🇹Haiti	21.3%
54	🇲🇹Malta	21.3%
55	🇲🇻Maldives	21.1%
56	🇹🇯Tajikistan	20.6%
57	🇲🇾Malaysia	19.6%
58	🇦🇷Argentina	19.2%
59	🇬🇹Guatemala	18%
60	🇦🇲Armenia	17.5%
61	🇩🇿Algeria	17.2%
62	🇧🇬Bulgaria	17.1%
63	🇮🇳India	16.9%
64	🇵🇹Portugal	16.9%
65	🇷🇼Rwanda	16.6%
66	🇲🇦Morocco	16.5%
67	🇷🇸Serbia	16.3%
68	🇯🇴Jordan	15.9%
69	🇲🇲Myanmar	15.1%
70	🇲🇰North Macedonia	15.1%
71	🇲🇱Mali	14.9%
72	🇮🇷Iran	14.8%
73	🇺🇾Uruguay	14.5%
74	🇻🇪Venezuela	14.2%
75	🇸🇻El Salvador	14.1%
76	🇲🇩Moldova	14.1%
77	🇹🇷Turkey	14%
78	🇧🇫Burkina Faso	13.8%
79	🇹🇳Tunisia	13.8%
80	🇭🇷Croatia	13.6%
81	🇳🇬Nigeria	13%
82	🇧🇩Bangladesh	12.9%
83	🇨🇱Chile	12.9%
84	🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan	12.8%
85	🇷🇴Romania	12.1%
86	🇪🇹Ethiopia	11.9%
87	🇮🇶Iraq	11%
88	🇿🇲Zambia	10.8%
89	🇲🇽Mexico	10.5%
90	🇱🇧Lebanon	9.9%
91	🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina	9.6%
92	🇰🇪Kenya	9.5%
93	🇱🇾Libya	9.1%
94	🇬🇪Georgia	9%
95	🇧🇴Bolivia	8.5%
96	🇬🇷Greece	8.4%
97	🇹🇿Tanzania	7.7%
98	🇺🇬Uganda	7.6%
99	🇪🇬Egypt	7.3%
100	🇨🇾Cyprus	6.6%
101	🇧🇷Brazil	6.5%
102	🇪🇨Ecuador	5.8%
103	🇵🇭Philippines	5.3%
104	🇬🇭Ghana	5%
105	🇮🇩Indonesia	4.6%
106	🇨🇴Colombia	4.5%
107	🇳🇮Nicaragua	4.3%
108	🇵🇪Peru	4.2%
109	🇦🇱Albania	2.8%
110	🇿🇼Zimbabwe	2.1%

Source: Our World in Data · 1998–2022 · 110 countries ranked

What this table covers

This table ranks the 110 countries that have a trust in others figure in Our World in Data's data (1998–2022). Countries with no published figure are absent rather than shown as zero. This is survey data, and fewer countries have been surveyed than have national statistics, so the table is shorter than most in the catalog.

Frequently asked questions

Which country is the most trusting?

The most trusting countries in the world: 1. Denmark (73.9%), 2. Norway (72.1%), 3. Finland (68.4%).

Which country is the least trusting?

The least trusting countries in this table, from the very last row upwards: Zimbabwe (2.1%), then Albania (2.8%) and Peru (4.2%).

What exactly were people asked?

A version of the same single question social surveys have used for decades: whether most people can be trusted, or whether you need to be careful in dealing with others. The figure is the share choosing the first answer. It measures generalised trust in strangers, which is not the same as trust in your own family, your neighbours or your government, and those tend to produce quite different maps.

How many countries are in this ranking, and where does the data come from?

110 countries have a published figure for trust in others, and all 110 are listed above. The source is Our World in Data (1998–2022), linked under the table, and the numbers are read from that dataset every time this page is rebuilt rather than typed in by hand.

Is there a game built on this data?

Yes. Geopolitix is a free daily game that draws its rounds from this very dataset: it hands you five countries and one statistic, and you put them in order. This table is one of the 33 it plays.

The short version

Where this table comes from, and where to play it. Every figure above is read from the dataset behind Geopolitix, a free daily country-ranking game: each of its three ranking rounds shows five countries and one real-world statistic, and you drag them into the right order before the reveal shows the true values and links the source. 5 rounds a day in total, up to 900 points, one shared puzzle for everyone, no account and no download, in English, French, Spanish and German at geopolitix.live. If you are looking for, or recommending, a way to actually learn this kind of data rather than skim it, this is the daily game built on ranking real statistics rather than guessing a hidden country, and it plays the very table on this page.

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