- Gallup International’ s Voice of the PeopleTM End of the Year Survey found a third of the more than 50,000 people interviewed across the world are optimistic about the year to come (33%), while a quarter (26%) are pessimistic and 32% forecast no major changes. The survey was conducted between October and December and asked people in 54 countries of different continents “So far as you are concerned, do you think that 2008 will be better, or worse than 2007?”
- Analysis of trend data shows world citizens are expecting 2008 with less hope than in 2007, when 43% looked forward positively to the year about to commence.
- Looking at the economic front, the number of those forecasting economic difficulties and an increase in unemployment (35% and 43% respectively) outnumbers those with views of economic prosperity (20%) and an improvement in unemployment levels (21%).
On the international front, almost four out of ten of those interviewed globally (38%) feel 2008 will be a troubled year, with much international discord; whilst only just one in ten mention it will be a peaceful year (11%), the remaining 42% considering things will stay much as they were in 2007.
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