A Changed World? Perceptions and experiences of risk in the Covid age
In a rapidly changing world, understanding the risks individuals face, and how they perceive them, is crucial to keeping people safe.
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World Risk Poll
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll is the first and only global study of worry about, and harm from, risks to people’s safety.
147,000
147,000
people interviewed for the latest World Risk Poll.
142
142
the latest edition of the Poll collected insights from 142 countries.
£2 million
£2 million
invested by Lloyd's Register Foundation in projects to put the World Risk Poll into Action.
World Risk Poll 2024 Report: Resilience in a Changing World
In this report – Resilience in a Changing World – we present the second iteration of this Resilience Index, which, for the first time, shows how resilience is changing in the face of today’s challenges.
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Turning the World Risk Poll into action
Lloyd’s Register Foundation is making funding available on an ongoing basis for organisations who can use World Risk Poll data for research and practical interventions to improve safety.
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2019 World Risk Poll
The 2019 World Risk Poll explores a variety of themes, including food and water safety, occupational health and safety, and climate change.
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World Risk Poll data explorer: 2024 update
With the release of our first World Risk Poll 2024 report, 'Resilience in a changing world', the World Risk Poll data explorer has been significantly improved with new ways to interrogate the latest World Risk Poll data.
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New Zealand sees significant decline in community resilience
According to the data – collected between July and September 2023 – the percentage of people in New Zealand who have experienced a disaster in the past five years saw a significant rise.
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Nearly half the global population feels unable to protect themselves from disasters
According to the data – collected in 2023 – 43% of the world’s population say they can do nothing to protect themselves and their families in the event of a disaster, a seven percentage point increase from 2021.
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Morocco sees significant decline in individual resilience
Morocco’s overall World Risk Poll Resilience Index score declined by seven points to 44 between 2021 and 2023.
Dr Etienne Krug Director, Department for Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organisation
The World Risk Poll provides us with a lot of very interesting information about how people perceive their risk internationally and we haven't had that so far. We need more widespread risk interventions across the world and we hope that the World Risk Poll will contribute to generating more action by policymakers, as well as encourage individuals to speak up and demand more action.
Dr Reuben Ng Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, National University of Singapore
Seldom does one get a front row seat on the risk perceptions of almost 99% of the global population. The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll is a treasured evidence base that policymakers can use to design risk communication strategies that fit a country’s context and culture. That’s a game changer to create a safer world.
