{"id": 1195708, "name": "Trust in government", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2026-02-17T11:23:27.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-02-17T11:23:27.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2007-2024", "datasetId": 7377, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "trust_in_government", "catalogPath": "grapher/oecd/2026-02-17/trust_in_government/trust_in_government#trust_in_government", "descriptionShort": "Percentage of respondents replying \"yes\" to the question \"In this country, do you have confidence in national government, or not?\"", "descriptionFromProducer": "Trust in government is based on the survey question: \u201cIn this country, do you have confidence in each of the following, or not? ... How about national government?\u201d The data shown reflect the percentage of respondents answering \u201cyes\u201d (the other response categories being \u201cno\u201d, and \u201cdon\u2019t know\u201d). Information is sourced via the annual Gallup World Poll, which samples around 1 000 people per country each year. The sample is ex ante designed to be nationally representative of the population aged 15 and over (including rural areas).", "descriptionProcessing": "As the data originally comes as 2- and 3-year pooled averages, we kept the latest year of each group as the year of the observation. For example, for the 2020-2022 average, we kept 2022 as the year of the observation.", "type": "float", "datasetName": "OECD - Trust in government data", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2026-02-17", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Trust in government", "unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%", "tolerance": 5, "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Trust"]}, "descriptionKey": ["The original question asked was: \u201cIn this country, do you have confidence in each of the following, or not? ... How about national government?\u201d The data shows the percentage of respondents answering \u201cyes\u201d (the other response categories being \u201cno\u201d, and \u201cdon\u2019t know\u201d).", "The data comes from the annual Gallup World Poll, which samples around 1000 people per country each year. The sample is designed to be nationally representative of the population aged 15 and over (including rural areas)."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2007}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2024}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 21, "name": "Argentina", "code": "ARG"}, {"id": 23, "name": "Australia", "code": "AUS"}, {"id": 24, "name": "Austria", "code": "AUT"}, {"id": 4, "name": "Belgium", "code": "BEL"}, {"id": 37, "name": "Brazil", "code": "BRA"}, {"id": 39, "name": "Bulgaria", "code": "BGR"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 172, "name": "Chile", "code": "CHL"}, {"id": 170, "name": "Colombia", "code": "COL"}, {"id": 166, "name": "Costa Rica", "code": "CRI"}, {"id": 165, "name": "Croatia", "code": "HRV"}, {"id": 162, "name": "Czechia", "code": "CZE"}, {"id": 161, "name": "Denmark", "code": "DNK"}, {"id": 156, "name": "Estonia", "code": "EST"}, {"id": 155, "name": "Finland", "code": "FIN"}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 6, "name": "Germany", "code": "DEU"}, {"id": 149, "name": "Greece", "code": "GRC"}, {"id": 138, "name": "Hungary", "code": "HUN"}, {"id": 207, "name": "Iceland", "code": "ISL"}, {"id": 136, "name": "Indonesia", "code": "IDN"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 133, "name": "Israel", "code": "ISR"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 14, "name": "Japan", "code": "JPN"}, {"id": 122, "name": "Latvia", "code": "LVA"}, {"id": 119, "name": "Lithuania", "code": "LTU"}, {"id": 210, "name": "Luxembourg", "code": "LUX"}, {"id": 113, "name": "Mexico", "code": "MEX"}, {"id": 5, "name": "Netherlands", "code": "NLD"}, {"id": 106, "name": "New Zealand", "code": "NZL"}, {"id": 102, "name": "Norway", "code": "NOR"}, {"id": 97, "name": "Peru", "code": "PER"}, {"id": 11, "name": "Poland", "code": "POL"}, {"id": 95, "name": "Portugal", "code": "PRT"}, {"id": 92, "name": "Romania", "code": "ROU"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 127, "name": "South Korea", "code": "KOR"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 12532, "titleSnapshot": "OECD How\u2019s Life? Well-being Database - Trust in government", "title": "OECD How\u2019s Life? Well-being Database", "descriptionSnapshot": "Trust in government data coming from the OECD How\u2019s Life? Well-being Database", "description": "The **How\u2019s Life? database** is the one-stop shop for the 80+ indicators of the OECD Well-being Dashboard, covering social, economic and environmental outcomes that matter most for people, the planet and future generations. It consists of six datasets: current well-being, current well-being vertical inequalities, current well-being by age, educational attainment, sex, and resources for future well-being. To learn more about the database, visit the database's [definitions and metadata.](https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/topics/policy-sub-issues/measuring-well-being-and-progress/oecd-well-being-database-definitions.pdf)", "producer": "OECD", "citationFull": "OECD (2026). Future well-being. 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