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People Intelligence

Public opinion and socioeconomic subgroup evidence from approved external survey sources. Exact source framing and methodological caveats remain visible.

United Kingdom · Financial resilience

83.6% say their household could cover basic needs for at least a month

More than eight in ten respondents in Great Britain said their household could cover basic needs for a month or more if income were lost.

Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll · Fieldwork 2025 · N=1,006

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

United Kingdom

#12of 15 verified countries on Gen Z delayed major decisions

Delayed decisions

Delayed major life decisions

Gen Z46%

Millennials46%

Share saying finances caused them to delay major life decisions such as marriage, starting a family or business, or further education.

Housing shapes career

Housing costs affect career decisions

Gen Z55%

Millennials59%

Share saying housing affordability affects career decisions.

Paycheck to paycheck

Living paycheck to paycheck

Gen Z41%

Millennials43%

Share reporting that they live paycheck to paycheck.

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 — United Kingdom · N=806. Values are attributed public results and remain source-defined.

Country result ↗Deloitte global study ↗Methodology/report PDF ↗

People Intelligence · United Kingdom · Young women

Political divides and mental health — measured as separate evidence streams.

PolisMetric does not assume that the U.S. pattern applies everywhere. For United Kingdom, 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 evidence · Mental-health evidenceNo synthetic national values

Political / values evidence

Young-adult left–right gender gap

Ages 20–29 · 1990–2023

Current classificationWidening modern gapSmall gap

The modern gap has widened; women have moved left faster while men are stable or also moving left more slowly.

European Sociological Review analysis of 466,089 people ages 20–29 across 32 European countries. The measure is left–right self-placement, not party vote.

Secondary gender-attitude context · Ipsos 2026

Adults who say “I define myself as a feminist”POLISMETRIC · DATA

Women46%

Men28%

Country-specific all-adult context only; it does not replace the youth ideology measure above.

Mental-health evidence

Young-adult mind-health position

Ages 18–34 · 2024–2025

18–34 MHQ rank#81of 84 reported countries

Higher-rankedLower-ranked

Sapien Labs' Global Mind Project ranks United Kingdom's internet-enabled 18–34 population at #81 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 United Kingdom.

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

United Kingdom: 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 source90.3%

named doctors or nurses as the person they trusted most for medical or health advice.

2018 national sample n=1,000 · prevalence rank #6 of 35 current PolisMetric countries

Most 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.

Doctors & nurses90.3%

Family & friends4.3%

Traditional healers2%

None / someone else1.6%

Famous people0.8%

Religious leaders0.6%

Don’t know / refused: 0.4% of the weighted sample.

Source trust · Q2181.5%

Government medical & health advice

Share answering that they trust government medical and health advice a lot or some.

Source trust · Q2292.3%

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.

United Kingdom 90.3%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%

Dashed marker = median among countries with a published value for this exact measure. Hover, tap or use Tab to inspect rows.

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.

Report ↗Country data ↗Questionnaire ↗

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

How United Kingdom sees AI.

Four directly comparable measures from Pew Research Center’s 2026 global AI study. Rankings below describe the prevalence of each response among the 25 PolisMetric countries covered by this release; they are not quality scores.

Future of work61%

of adults say AI will lead to fewer jobs in United Kingdom over the next 20 years.

Share rank #4 of 25 covered PolisMetric countries · covered-country median 48%

Q57#4 / 25

61%

Expect AI to lead to fewer jobs

United Kingdom: 61%25-country median: 48%

Share of adults saying AI will lead to fewer jobs in their country over the next 20 years.

Field period: Feb. 8–May 13, 2026

Q56#12 / 25

34%

Expect AI to increase inequality

United Kingdom: 34%25-country median: 32%

Share saying AI will increase the gap between rich and poor in their country over the next 20 years.

Field period: Feb. 8–May 13, 2026

Q55#7 / 25

42%

More concerned than excited about AI

United Kingdom: 42%25-country median: 37%

Share saying they are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life.

Field period: Feb. 8–May 13, 2026

Q54#8 / 25

51%

Have heard or read a lot about AI

United Kingdom: 51%25-country median: 41%

Share saying they have heard or read a lot about artificial intelligence.

Field period: Feb. 8–May 13, 2026

Cross-country comparison

See where United Kingdom sits among all 25 covered countries.

Switch the measure to compare every directly surveyed PolisMetric country on the same 0–100% scale. United Kingdom is highlighted; the gold marker shows the 25-country median.

Expect AI to lead to fewer jobsShare of adults saying AI will lead to fewer jobs in their country over the next 20 years.

United Kingdom 61%Median 48%Rank #4/25

1Australia76%

2South Korea76%

3United States71%

4Canada61%

5United Kingdom61%

6France60%

7Poland59%

8Italy55%

9Spain54%

10Germany51%

11Japan49%

12Netherlands48%

13Sweden48%

14Argentina47%

15Singapore46%

16Mexico44%

17South Africa44%

18Brazil42%

19Israel42%

20Malaysia41%

21Indonesia37%

22Thailand32%

23India29%

24Türkiye29%

25Philippines26%

Bars show published Pew toplines. The dashed vertical marker is the median among the 25 covered PolisMetric countries. Hover, tap or use Tab to inspect a row.

Source

Pew Research Center, Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth, published Sept. 17, 2026. International country results were fielded Feb. 8–May 13, 2026; U.S. measures shown here use the field periods printed on each card.

Report ↗Topline ↗Methodology ↗

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.

United Kingdom · People Intelligence

Five sources. Five different stories.

Each finding comes from a different approved source and covers a different part of public life. Open the data view to inspect the measure, sample, evidence note and original source.

Financial resilience2025

Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll01 / 05

83.6% say their household could cover basic needs for at least a month

Five People signals from the 2025 World Risk PollPOLISMETRIC · DATA

01Married / partner47.5%

02Neighbors care80.8%

031+ month buffer83.6%

04Mental-health harm worry41.8%

05Violent-crime harm worry53.4%

Five separately measured World Risk Poll items shown for context; this story highlights one of them. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingMore than eight in ten respondents in Great Britain said their household could cover basic needs for a month or more if income were lost.

Independent sourcen 1,006

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Financial resilience

83.6% say their household could cover basic needs for at least a month

2025

Five People signals from the 2025 World Risk PollPOLISMETRIC · DATA

01Married / partner47.5%

02Neighbors care80.8%

031+ month buffer83.6%

04Mental-health harm worry41.8%

05Violent-crime harm worry53.4%

Five separately measured World Risk Poll items shown for context; this story highlights one of them. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · 2025
Measure / group	Published value
Married / partner	47.5%
Neighbors care	80.8%
1+ month buffer	83.6%
Mental-health harm worry	41.8%
Violent-crime harm worry	53.4%

Question / measure

How Long Household Could Cover Basic Needs If Income Was Lost: A month or more

Sample

n 1,006

Evidence

canonical observation

Use class

OPEN ATTRIBUTION

Finding

More than eight in ten respondents in Great Britain said their household could cover basic needs for a month or more if income were lost.

Evidence note

Canonical World Risk Poll observation lrf-wrp-2025-gbr-household_buffer_month_plus; weighted national estimate 83.6%.

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Hope & wellbeingJan-Feb 2026

Office for National Statistics02 / 05

69% report high hope for the future

High hope for the futurePOLISMETRIC · DATA

69%

0100%

Hope & wellbeing

Adults rating hope at 6 or higher on a 0–10 scale. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingONS found that almost seven in ten adults in Great Britain rated their hope for the future at 6 or higher on a 0-to-10 scale.

Independent sourceGreat Britain adults

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Hope & wellbeing

69% report high hope for the future

Jan-Feb 2026

High hope for the futurePOLISMETRIC · DATA

69%

0100%

Hope & wellbeing

Adults rating hope at 6 or higher on a 0–10 scale. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · Jan-Feb 2026
Measure / group	Published value
Hope & wellbeing	69%

Question / measure

High hope for the future

Sample

Great Britain adults

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

OPEN ATTRIBUTION

Finding

ONS found that almost seven in ten adults in Great Britain rated their hope for the future at 6 or higher on a 0-to-10 scale.

Evidence note

ONS Opinions and Lifestyle Survey public result; 69% reported high hope for the future.

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Values & religionSpring 2025

Pew Research Center03 / 05

22% say belief in God is necessary to be moral

Is belief in God necessary to be moral?POLISMETRIC · DATA

Necessary22%Not necessary77%Other1%

Published U.K. shares; residual shown as other responses. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingPew found that 22% in the U.K. said belief in God is necessary to be moral and have good values, compared with 77% who said it is not necessary.

Independent sourceNationally representative U.K. adult sample in Pew Spring 2025 Global Attitudes Survey

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Values & religion

22% say belief in God is necessary to be moral

Spring 2025

Is belief in God necessary to be moral?POLISMETRIC · DATA

Necessary22%Not necessary77%Other1%

Published U.K. shares; residual shown as other responses. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · Spring 2025
Measure / group	Published value
Necessary	22%
Not necessary	77%
Other	1%

Question / measure

Belief in God necessary to be moral and have good values

Sample

Nationally representative U.K. adult sample in Pew Spring 2025 Global Attitudes Survey

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

Pew found that 22% in the U.K. said belief in God is necessary to be moral and have good values, compared with 77% who said it is not necessary.

Evidence note

Pew Research Center reports 22% in the United Kingdom say belief in God is necessary to be moral and have good values; 77% say it is not necessary.

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National outlookJul 30-Aug 4, 2026

Ipsos04 / 05

75% say Britain is getting worse as a place to live

Direction of Britain as a place to livePOLISMETRIC · DATA

Getting worse75%Getting better6%Other / same19%

Ipsos, July 30–Aug. 4, 2026; residual shown as other/same responses. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingIpsos found widespread national pessimism: three-quarters of Britons said Britain was getting worse as a place to live and only 6% said it was getting better.

Independent sourcen 1,033

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National outlook

75% say Britain is getting worse as a place to live

Jul 30-Aug 4, 2026

Direction of Britain as a place to livePOLISMETRIC · DATA

Getting worse75%Getting better6%Other / same19%

Ipsos, July 30–Aug. 4, 2026; residual shown as other/same responses. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · Jul 30-Aug 4, 2026
Measure / group	Published value
Getting worse	75%
Getting better	6%
Other / same	19%

Question / measure

Whether Britain is getting better or worse as a place to live

Sample

n 1,033

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

Ipsos found widespread national pessimism: three-quarters of Britons said Britain was getting worse as a place to live and only 6% said it was getting better.

Evidence note

Ipsos reports 75% of Britons say Britain is getting worse as a place to live; the Ipsos UK Knowledge Panel survey covered 1,033 adults age 18+ and was fielded July 30-August 4, 2026.

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Household financesBSA 42 / published Jun 2025

National Centre for Social Research05 / 05

26% say they are struggling to live on their current income

Household income experiencePOLISMETRIC · DATA

Struggling on current income26%

Living comfortably35%

British Social Attitudes 42. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Key findingBritish Social Attitudes reported a record 26% saying they were struggling to live on their current income, while the share living comfortably had fallen to 35%.

Independent sourceBritish Social Attitudes survey; see BSA 42 report methodology

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Household finances

26% say they are struggling to live on their current income

BSA 42 / published Jun 2025

Household income experiencePOLISMETRIC · DATA

Struggling on current income26%

Living comfortably35%

British Social Attitudes 42. Rebuilt to the PolisMetric Graph V2 standard.

Published observations · BSA 42 / published Jun 2025
Measure / group	Published value
Struggling on current income	26%
Living comfortably	35%

Question / measure

Struggling to live on current income

Sample

British Social Attitudes survey; see BSA 42 report methodology

Evidence

publisher public result

Use class

PUBLIC RESULTS ONLY

Finding

British Social Attitudes reported a record 26% saying they were struggling to live on their current income, while the share living comfortably had fallen to 35%.

Evidence note

National Centre for Social Research reports a record 26% say they are struggling to live on their current income in the latest British Social Attitudes report.

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