Delayed major life decisions
Gen Z46%
Millennials35%
Share saying finances caused them to delay major life decisions such as marriage, starting a family or business, or further education.
People · Asia
China
Source dates shown with each finding
← China overview
China · People
People Intelligence
Public opinion and socioeconomic subgroup evidence from approved external survey sources. Exact source framing and methodological caveats remain visible.
China · Community
77.6% say their neighbors care about their wellbeing
More than three-quarters of respondents in China said their neighbors care about them and their wellbeing a lot or somewhat.
Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll · Fieldwork 2025 · N=3,010
People · Generations · Financial milestones
The “maybe later” economy.
Housing, education, work and family choices increasingly collide with financial pressure. PolisMetric keeps the U.S. Pew benchmark separate from Deloitte’s same-wave Gen Z and millennial country evidence so unlike questions are never forced into one ranking.
Verified 2026 country result
China
#13of 15 verified countries on Gen Z delayed major decisions
Housing costs affect career decisions
Gen Z64%
Millennials60%
Share saying housing affordability affects career decisions.
Same-question international comparison
Financial pressure is delaying major life decisions.
These 15 country results come from the same Deloitte 2026 survey wave and the same question. Paired dots show published percentages for Gen Z and millennials; the connector shows the gap. This is not a quality ranking. Countries without a verified national value remain outside the ranking.
Thailand65%57%
Philippines64%64%
Argentina59%67%
Mexico57%52%
Italy56%51%
Australia55%45%
India54%44%
Sweden52%49%
Singapore51%50%
Netherlands51%45%
Switzerland46%60%
United Kingdom46%46%
China46%35%
Germany45%39%
Brazil45%36%
Deloitte Global 2026 Gen Z and Millennial Survey · fielded Nov. 24, 2025–Jan. 15, 2026 · online self-complete survey. The global study includes 22,595 respondents in 44 countries; this chart contains only source-verified country cuts in the current PolisMetric evidence pass.
Country source
Deloitte 2026 Gen Z and Millennial Survey — Mainland China. Values are attributed public results and remain source-defined.
People Intelligence · China · Young women
Political divides and mental health — measured as separate evidence streams.
PolisMetric does not assume that the U.S. pattern applies everywhere. For China, political or gender-attitude evidence is shown only when a governed source supports it, and mental-health evidence is kept methodologically separate. An association is never inferred merely because both measures appear on the same page.
CoveragePolitics gap · Mental-health evidenceNo synthetic national values
Political / values evidence
Governed evidence gapDirectly comparable youth evidence not located
Evidence gapNo comparable national youth-politics subgroup is published in this module.
No directly comparable country-specific young-women political/ideology subgroup result was located in the governed cross-country sources used for this module.
Mental-health evidence
Ages 18–34 · 2024–2025Young-adult mind-health position
18–34 MHQ rank#80of 84 reported countries
Higher-rankedLower-ranked
Sapien Labs' Global Mind Project ranks China's internet-enabled 18–34 population at #80 of 84. This is a young-adult country context, not a women-only result and not a depression prevalence estimate.
Global young-adult referenceMHQ 36 · 41% distressed/strugglingGlobal 18–34 reference from the same report; not a national value for China.
Interpretation ruleDo not turn two separate datasets into a causal story.
Political ideology, party affiliation, feminist self-identification, psychological distress and MHQ are different constructs. Cross-country cultural and sampling differences also matter. PolisMetric keeps the measures separate unless a single defensible study directly estimates their relationship in the same population.
POLISMETRICEvidence before narrative
Trusted sources · Health & wellness · 2018 baseline
China: who people trusted for health advice.
A directly comparable baseline from the Wellcome Global Monitor. “Most trusted source,” trust in government advice, and trust in medical workers are kept as separate measures. The survey was fielded in 2018; newer country-specific evidence is shown separately when a governed source is available.
Most trusted source62.4%
named doctors or nurses as the person they trusted most for medical or health advice.
2018 national sample n=3,649 · prevalence rank #34 of 35 current PolisMetric countriesMost trusted source · Q20
One question, six answer groups.
Bars use the full weighted country sample denominator, matching Wellcome’s published convention. “Don’t know” and refusals remain in the denominator and are preserved as missing-response metadata.
Don’t know / refused: 9.3% of the weighted sample.
Government medical & health advice
Share answering that they trust government medical and health advice a lot or some.
Medical workers’ advice
Share saying they trust advice from medical workers such as doctors and nurses a lot or some.
35-country comparison
Compare the same question across PolisMetric countries.
Switch measures to inspect directly comparable 2018 values. Bars show response prevalence, not a quality score or PolisMetric ranking.
Doctors or nurses named as the single most trusted sourceQ20: share of the weighted country sample naming a doctor or nurse as the person trusted most for medical or health advice.
China 62.4%Median 79.7%Available 35/35
1Singapore93.5%
2Norway93.2%
3Canada91.1%
4Italy90.7%
5Malaysia90.7%
6United Kingdom90.3%
7Belgium90.2%
8Sweden89.5%
9Australia89.4%
10France88.7%
11Thailand88.7%
12Spain88.1%
13United States88.1%
14Ireland85.2%
15Netherlands84%
16Taiwan83.3%
17Mexico81.4%
18Switzerland79.7%
19Argentina79.1%
20Vietnam78.7%
21India76.8%
22Indonesia76.1%
23Türkiye75.9%
24South Africa74.3%
25Poland71.9%
26Saudi Arabia71.2%
27South Korea71.2%
28Russia69.8%
29Philippines69.6%
30Japan69%
31Brazil65.1%
32Germany63.3%
33Israel63.1%
34China62.4%
35Austria58.7%
Trust government medical and health adviceQ21: share answering 'a lot' or 'some'. Countries where the question was unavailable remain missing.
China 77.6%Median 77.8%Available 34/35
1Norway91.8%
2Singapore91.5%
3Malaysia89.8%
4Austria88.5%
5South Korea86.7%
6Australia85.8%
7Ireland84.5%
8India84.1%
9Germany83.2%
10Philippines83.1%
11Israel82.4%
12Thailand81.8%
13Switzerland81.5%
14United Kingdom81.5%
15Taiwan78.5%
16Canada77.9%
17Netherlands77.9%
18China77.6%
19Indonesia77.3%
20Spain76.6%
21Mexico76.5%
22Belgium74.6%
23Argentina73.6%
24Japan70.4%
25Sweden69.7%
26France69.3%
27Vietnam69.2%
28Türkiye68.9%
29Brazil65.4%
30South Africa63.1%
31Poland62.8%
32Italy62.7%
33United States59%
34Russia55.6%
Trust medical workers’ health adviceQ22: share answering 'a lot' or 'some' about advice from medical workers such as doctors and nurses.
China 80.9%Median 92.3%Available 35/35
1Norway98%
2Australia97%
3Belgium96.7%
4Thailand95.6%
5Sweden95.4%
6France95.2%
7Taiwan95.1%
8Spain95%
9Ireland94.8%
10Singapore94.8%
11South Korea94.4%
12Japan94.2%
13Switzerland94.2%
14Austria94.1%
15Germany94.1%
16Canada93.7%
17Netherlands93.3%
18United Kingdom92.3%
19United States91.3%
20Malaysia91.1%
21Israel90.9%
22Italy90.9%
23Argentina88.9%
24Poland88.5%
25Philippines86.8%
26India86.6%
27Saudi Arabia84.8%
28Türkiye84.3%
29Mexico82.3%
30China80.9%
31Russia79.6%
32Indonesia78.5%
33Vietnam78.3%
34Brazil70.5%
35South Africa68.3%
Source & reuse
Gallup (2019), Wellcome Global Monitor – First Wave Findings. PolisMetric visualization and weighted aggregation from published survey fields. The Wellcome report states that its data and text are distributed under CC BY with attribution; report images are excluded. PolisMetric uses original charts and does not reproduce Wellcome’s graphic design.
Country percentages use the public within-country survey weight (wgt) and the full weighted country sample denominator, matching Wellcome's published country convention. Q21/Q22 combine 'A lot' + 'Some'. Don't know/refused responses remain in the denominator and are preserved as missing-response metadata; unavailable questions remain null and are never converted to zero. Fieldwork: April–December 2018. This supplemental module does not count as five independent People sources.
AI & society · Pew Research Center · 2026
Pew's 2026 AI study did not survey China.
PolisMetric does not estimate, model or backfill a Pew value when the country was not included in this release. Other People evidence remains separate.
No directly comparable Pew 2026 observation.
Not surveyed in Pew Research Center's 2026 global AI attitudes release.
Missing is kept missing. It is not treated as zero and does not receive a comparative rank.Source
Pew Research Center, Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth, published Sept. 17, 2026.
Pew surveyed 37 places overall. This PolisMetric comparison is restricted to the 25 countries that overlap the canonical 35-country universe. Source results are reproduced as attributed public toplines; PolisMetric does not reinterpret them as an original poll.