Trust in People (ESS)
Mean generalised social trust on a 0–10 scale. European Social Survey, pooled recent rounds.
Source: European Social Survey Licence: ESS terms — public aggregates Unit: mean 0–10 Parsed: 2026-06-28 Open source ↗
Period: Pooled recent rounds (~2017–2023). Method: Weighted by post-stratification weight (pspwght); country mean on the 0–10 item.
Avg (2023)
4.7
single period
Improving
0
of 38 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
38
±0.5pp band
Most people can be trusted (0–10)
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Trust in People (ESS) — full ranking
Every entity in this dataset, in HTML. The interactive panel above shows the same numbers; this is the one that survives without JavaScript.
| # | Entity | Most people can be trusted (0–10) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇩🇰 Denmark | 6.8 |
| 2 | 🇫🇮 Finland | 6.6 |
| 3 | 🇳🇴 Norway | 6.6 |
| 4 | 🇮🇸 Iceland | 6.3 |
| 5 | 🇸🇪 Sweden | 6.1 |
| 6 | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 6 |
| 7 | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | 5.8 |
| 8 | 🇪🇪 Estonia | 5.5 |
| 9 | 🇮🇪 Ireland | 5.4 |
| 10 | 🇦🇹 Austria | 5.3 |
| 11 | 🇬🇧 UK | 5.3 |
| 12 | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | 5.1 |
| 13 | 🇮🇱 Israel | 5.1 |
| 14 | 🇧🇪 Belgium | 5 |
| 15 | 🇪🇸 Spain | 5 |
| 16 | 🇱🇹 Lithuania | 5 |
| 17 | 🇩🇪 Germany | 4.8 |
| 18 | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic | 4.7 |
| 19 | 🇮🇹 Italy | 4.7 |
| 20 | 🇫🇷 France | 4.5 |
| 21 | 🇭🇺 Hungary | 4.4 |
| 22 | 🇭🇷 Croatia | 4.4 |
| 23 | 🇸🇮 Slovenia | 4.3 |
| 24 | 🇷🇺 Russia | 4.2 |
| 25 | 🇺🇦 Ukraine | 4.1 |
| 26 | 🇬🇷 Greece | 4.1 |
| 27 | 🇸🇰 Slovak Republic | 4.1 |
| 28 | 🇱🇻 Latvia | 4 |
| 29 | 🇲🇪 Montenegro | 4 |
| 30 | 🇵🇱 Poland | 3.9 |
| 31 | 🇵🇹 Portugal | 3.9 |
| 32 | 🇨🇾 Cyprus | 3.9 |
| 33 | 🇷🇴 Romania | 3.9 |
| 34 | 🇷🇸 Serbia | 3.8 |
| 35 | 🇲🇰 North Macedonia | 3.6 |
| 36 | 🇧🇬 Bulgaria | 3.5 |
| 37 | 🇦🇱 Albania | 3 |
| 38 | 🇹🇷 Turkey | 2.6 |