The Countries That Value Family, Work, Friends, Leisure, Religion And Politics The Most, Visualized
What's more important for a child to be encouraged to learn: imagination, hard work or both?
And what do you value the most: family, work, friends, leisure, religion or politics?
These are questions asked by the World Values Survey, "a large non-commercial, cross-national, longitudinal investigation of human beliefs and values." The comparative social survey polled 1,000-3,000 people in countries around the globe to get a consensus on where they stood on varying principles and ideals.
Anders Sundell, a political scientist at University of Gothenburg, scoured through the data and put the results on a line graph, with each country represented by a dot.
Many Nordic countries said they wanted to encourage children to learn imagination the most, with Sweden being the country to list hard work as the least important attribute. Guatemala and South Korea were the countries that overwhelmingly valued both imagination and hard work. Zimbabwe was the country that listed imagination as the least important quality.
Sundell also mapped the countries around the globe that valued family, work, friends, religion, leisure and politics the highest.
In these charts, one interesting finding was that places like Japan, Canada and the Nordic countries listed religion as not very important.
Sweden was one of the most notable countries from the data visualization for its answers, valuing friendship, leisure time and politics significantly more than many of its European counterparts.
Asia and Oceania
Western and Southern Europe
Eastern Europe and the Balkans
The Americas
Africa And The Middle East
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