What Worries the World: How has Covid-19 changed the outlook?

What Worries the World: How has Covid-19 changed the outlook?

Local perspectives on our issues tracker during the pandemic.

The August 2021 results of our What Worries the World issues tracker highlighted the unstable pandemic environment around the world, with highly changeable scores for Coronavirus concern month-to-month.

Here we take a closer look at how the situation is developing and hear from Ipsos experts to provide the local context to our latest results.

Where are we now?

Globally, Covid-19 remains the top concern with 37% worldwide counting it among the top 3 most worrying issues facing their country today, according to our global country average. While it may still be at the top of the list of worries, this is nowhere near the peak of 61% seen in April 2020.

Of the 28 countries surveyed, we see the highest levels of public concern in Malaysia (83%), Japan (63%) and South Korea (58%). See top 10 below.

(%) worried by Covid-19 in August 2021 in each country
World
0%
Malaysia
0%
Japan
0%
South Korea
0%
Australia
0%
India
0%
Mexico
0%
Great Britain
0%
Spain
0%
Brazil
0%
Saudi Arabia
0%

Representative sample of 19,010 adults aged 16-74 in 28 participating countries, July 23rd – August 6th 2021.

Chart: Ipsos Source: Global Advisor – Embed Created with Datawrapper

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What Worries the World: How has Covid-19 changed the outlook?

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References

Ipsos | Global Market Research and Public Opinion Specialist

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