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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Younger people more likely to doubt merits of democracy – global poll

A woman casts her vote at a ballot box.
A woman votes in elections in Spain. The study by Open Society Foundations polled opinions of people from 30 countries. Photograph: Elena Fernandez/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Democracy remains popular across the world, but faced with a global array of challenges from inequality to the climate crisis, young people are far less likely than their elders to believe it can deliver on what concerns them.

According to a major international survey of 30 countries published on Tuesday, 86% of respondents would prefer to live in a democratic state and only 20% believe authoritarian regimes are more capable of delivering “what citizens want”.

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