By Katharina Buchholz, Statista
New records for global high temperatures keep getting set every few years now. Nevertheless, the topic of climate change has still not reached the top of the agenda for many people, as data from Statista Consumer Insights shows. Respondents in none of the 32 nations covered by the survey collectively rate climate change as the most important problem for their own country when asked to name the issues that are of the biggest significance to them.
Of the countries included in the survey, the United Arab Emirates come closest with climate change being named as a severe issue by a third of respondents – rank 2 among 20 issues. In Vietnam, 40 percent said the same, but this only landed the issue in rank 3, as the Vietnamese were collectively even more concerned about inflation and healthcare/social security. Climate change also reached rank 3 in Saudi Arabia, at only 23 percent naming it, however. Another example from Asia illustrates how rank and share of respondents can differ, as in the Philippines, a 40 percent share of respondents saying climate change was one of the most important issues for the country only rank it tenth because Filipinos take even bigger issue with topics ranging from inflation to corruption, the economy, crime and poverty.
A quarter of respondents very concerned about climate change means the issue reached rank 6 in South Korea, followed by China and India, where it comes in eighth. Despite ranking the same in both countries, climate change was recognized as a big problem by more people in India at 32 percent. In China, 21 percent rating climate change as such was among the survey's lowest results, together with outcomes in the Netherlands (21 percent, rank 8), Poland (21 percent, rank 10) and Belgium and Mexico (21 percent, rank 11) as well as Colombia (20 percent, rank 11) and Argentina (13 percent, rank 13).
Among nations such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom or the United States, worry about climate change hovered between 22 and 25 percent, not surpassing rank 9. It reached the lowest rank in the survey in the U.S., with 22 percent of respondents naming it for a rank 14.
Edited by Irfan Ahmad.
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New records for global high temperatures keep getting set every few years now. Nevertheless, the topic of climate change has still not reached the top of the agenda for many people, as data from Statista Consumer Insights shows. Respondents in none of the 32 nations covered by the survey collectively rate climate change as the most important problem for their own country when asked to name the issues that are of the biggest significance to them.
Of the countries included in the survey, the United Arab Emirates come closest with climate change being named as a severe issue by a third of respondents – rank 2 among 20 issues. In Vietnam, 40 percent said the same, but this only landed the issue in rank 3, as the Vietnamese were collectively even more concerned about inflation and healthcare/social security. Climate change also reached rank 3 in Saudi Arabia, at only 23 percent naming it, however. Another example from Asia illustrates how rank and share of respondents can differ, as in the Philippines, a 40 percent share of respondents saying climate change was one of the most important issues for the country only rank it tenth because Filipinos take even bigger issue with topics ranging from inflation to corruption, the economy, crime and poverty.
A quarter of respondents very concerned about climate change means the issue reached rank 6 in South Korea, followed by China and India, where it comes in eighth. Despite ranking the same in both countries, climate change was recognized as a big problem by more people in India at 32 percent. In China, 21 percent rating climate change as such was among the survey's lowest results, together with outcomes in the Netherlands (21 percent, rank 8), Poland (21 percent, rank 10) and Belgium and Mexico (21 percent, rank 11) as well as Colombia (20 percent, rank 11) and Argentina (13 percent, rank 13).
Among nations such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom or the United States, worry about climate change hovered between 22 and 25 percent, not surpassing rank 9. It reached the lowest rank in the survey in the U.S., with 22 percent of respondents naming it for a rank 14.
Edited by Irfan Ahmad.
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