Name: Trust in People (ESS)
Creator: European Social Survey
License: ESS terms — public aggregates

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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