Self-Expression Values

Welzel’s emancipative/self-expression-values index — the survival vs self-expression axis of the Inglehart-Welzel cultural map. WVS Wave 7.

Source: World Values Survey (Wave 7) Licence: WVS terms — public aggregates Unit: index 0–1 Parsed: 2026-06-28 Open source ↗

Period: Wave 7 (2017–2022). Method: Weighted by W_WEIGHT; Welzel cultural-values index, country mean.

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Avg (2022)
0.4
single period
Improving
0
of 64 tracked
Declining
0
period over period
Stable
64
±0.5pp band

Survival (0) ↔ self-expression (1)

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Self-Expression Values — 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.

64 entities, 2022. Highest first.
#EntitySurvival (0) ↔ self-expression (1)
1🇩🇪 Germany0.7
2🇳🇱 Netherlands0.7
3🇬🇧 UK0.7
4🇳🇿 New Zealand0.6
5🇨🇦 Canada0.6
6🇦🇺 Australia0.6
7🇦🇩 Andorra0.6
8NIR0.6
9🇺🇾 Uruguay0.6
10🇺🇸 USA0.6
11🇯🇵 Japan0.6
12🇵🇷 Puerto Rico0.5
13🇲🇴 Macao, China0.5
14🇨🇿 Czech Republic0.5
15🇭🇰 Hong Kong, China0.5
16🇬🇹 Guatemala0.5
17🇬🇷 Greece0.5
18🇦🇷 Argentina0.5
19🇧🇷 Brazil0.5
20🇷🇸 Serbia0.5
21🇸🇰 Slovak Republic0.5
22🇨🇱 Chile0.5
23🇹🇼 Taiwan0.5
24🇰🇷 South Korea0.5
25🇸🇬 Singapore0.4
26🇲🇽 Mexico0.4
27🇲🇳 Mongolia0.4
28🇨🇴 Colombia0.4
29🇹🇭 Thailand0.4
30🇷🇴 Romania0.4
31🇲🇾 Malaysia0.4
32🇨🇾 Cyprus0.4
33🇱🇧 Lebanon0.4
34🇰🇪 Kenya0.4
35🇻🇳 Vietnam0.4
36🇵🇪 Peru0.4
37🇺🇦 Ukraine0.4
38🇷🇺 Russia0.4
39🇨🇳 China0.4
40🇧🇴 Bolivia0.4
41🇵🇭 Philippines0.4
42🇲🇦 Morocco0.4
43🇪🇨 Ecuador0.4
44🇳🇮 Nicaragua0.4
45🇰🇿 Kazakhstan0.4
46🇻🇪 Venezuela0.4
47🇹🇷 Turkey0.4
48🇲🇻 Maldives0.3
49🇮🇷 Iran0.3
50🇮🇩 Indonesia0.3
51🇹🇳 Tunisia0.3
52🇪🇹 Ethiopia0.3
53🇿🇼 Zimbabwe0.3
54🇹🇯 Tajikistan0.3
55🇦🇲 Armenia0.3
56🇧🇩 Bangladesh0.3
57🇰🇬 Kyrgyz Republic0.3
58🇲🇲 Myanmar0.3
59🇳🇬 Nigeria0.3
60🇯🇴 Jordan0.3
61🇮🇶 Iraq0.3
62🇱🇾 Libya0.3
63🇵🇰 Pakistan0.3
64🇪🇬 Egypt0.2