The issues of inflation, geopolitics and the energy crisis have gripped citizens, experts and governments in the past 18 months, global market research company Ipsos has found.
In the economy category, inflation remains the top global concern for the eighth month in a row, with 42% noting it as a worry, up from 20% at the start of the year.
This is according to the results of Ipsos’s “What Worries the World” survey, which tracks public opinion on the most important social and political issues across 29 countries today, drawing on more than 10 years of data to place the latest scores in context.
Results came from 20 466 online interviews conducted between October 21 and November 4 among adults aged 18 to 74 in Canada, Israel, Malaysia, South Africa,…