Aidan Connaughton

A median of 62% of adults across the 14 countries surveyed this summer generally believe most people can be trusted.

Ahead of the 2020 U.S. election, here’s a look at how elections are run in the United States and other countries around the world.

Across 13 countries, people’s assessments of how well their country had handled the coronavirus outbreak were closely tied to partisanship.

In most of the 18 countries analyzed, religiously unaffiliated adults were more likely to say homosexuality should be accepted by society.

The pandemic has had a divisive effect on a sense of national unity in many of the countries surveyed: A median of 46% feel more national unity now than before the coronavirus outbreak, while 48% think divisions have grown.

Many legislators in four English-speaking countries directly addressed George Floyd’s killing and the subsequent protests on Twitter.

A median of 45% across 34 surveyed countries say it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values. However, public opinion on this question, as well as the role of God, prayer and religion varies by country, region and economic development.

Americans' views of how well the World Health Organization has dealt with the outbreak are sharply divided along partisan lines.

To mark World Press Freedom Day, here are five charts that show how people globally see the freedom of the press.

People are widely dissatisfied with democracy in their country and believe that elected officials don’t care what people like them think.