Share of people who believe in climate change and think it's a serious threat to humanity, 2023
Participants were asked to score beliefs on a scale from 0 to 100 on four questions: whether action was necessary to avoid a global catastrophe; humans werecausing climate change; it was a serious threat to humanity; and was a global emergency.
Believe climate change is a serious threat to humanity percent
Country/area | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Algeria | 85% |
| Armenia | 89% |
| Australia | 81% |
| Austria | 82% |
| Belgium | 79% |
| Brazil | 93% |
| Bulgaria | 85% |
| Canada | 89% |
| Chile | 93% |
| China | 85% |
| Czechia | 89% |
| Denmark | 80% |
| Ecuador | 91% |
| Finland | 79% |
| France | 86% |
| Gambia | 93% |
| Germany | 83% |
| Ghana | 93% |
| Greece | 81% |
| India | 89% |
| Ireland | 87% |
| Israel | 73% |
| Italy | 91% |
| Japan | 79% |
| Kenya | 91% |
| Latvia | 77% |
| Mexico | 91% |
| Morocco | 85% |
| Netherlands | 80% |
| New Zealand | 79% |
| Nigeria | 90% |
| North Macedonia | 91% |
| Norway | 76% |
| Peru | 91% |
| Philippines | 97% |
| Poland | 84% |
| Portugal | 94% |
| Romania | 88% |
| Russia | 81% |
| Saudi Arabia | 74% |
| Serbia | 92% |
| Singapore | 84% |
| Slovakia | 79% |
| Slovenia | 80% |
| South Africa | 89% |
| South Korea | 86% |
| Spain | 88% |
| Sri Lanka | 89% |
| Sudan | 79% |
| Sweden | 79% |
| Switzerland | 85% |
| Taiwan | 79% |
| Tanzania | 93% |
| Thailand | 84% |
| Turkey | 93% |
| Uganda | 93% |
| Ukraine | 88% |
| United Arab Emirates | 82% |
| United Kingdom | 83% |
| United States | 77% |
| Uruguay | 92% |
| Venezuela | 92% |
| Vietnam | 92% |
| Other | |
| World | 86% |
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