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In 2025, a median of 57% of adults across 140 countries said they are satisfied with environmental protection efforts in their country, while 41% said they are dissatisfied.

Over half of Gen Z K-12 students (52%) think they will need to know how to use AI in their postsecondary education, and 48% believe they will need to use it in their future career. Explore the latest findings from Gallup, @WaltonFamilyFdn and @gsvventures: on.gallup.com/4smuxII

Driven by a recent increase, young men in the U.S. have now surpassed young women in saying religion is "very important" in their lives. Gallup’s latest data, from 2024-2025, show 42% of young men saying religion is very important to them, up sharply from 28% in 2022-2023. By contrast, during this period, young women’s attachment to religion has held steady at about 30%. The recent increase among young men also contrasts with minimal changes since 2022-2023 among older men and women.

40% of employees worldwide experienced significant stress the previous day.

66% of Americans say the quality of the environment in the country as a whole is getting worse.

18% of all U.S. employees say it is very or somewhat likely their job will be eliminated within the next five years due to AI or automation. Among employees working in organizations that have adopted AI, that share rises to 23%.

44% of U.S. adults worry a great deal about global warming or climate change, among the highest in Gallup's full trend since 1989, along with 46% measured in 2020 and 45% in 2017.

Global employee wellbeing improved to 34% thriving in 2025 — the first increase in three years. New data from Gallup's 2026 State of the Global Workplace report: on.gallup.com/3PY24ew

For the first time in Gallup’s tracking, half of employed U.S. adults report using AI in their role at least a few times a year — up from 46% last quarter, according to Gallup’s Q1 2026 findings.

Nearly half of Gen Z workers (48%) believe the risks of AI in the workforce outweigh its benefits, an 11-point increase from 2025. Explore the latest findings from Gallup, @WaltonFamilyFdn and @gsvventures: on.gallup.com/4c72mHy

In Hungary, the top national issue is politics and government, named by more than one in four (28%) adults.

In 2025, as both approval and disapproval shifted for the U.S. and China, the percentage expressing no opinion reached some of the lowest levels seen in the past two decades. This suggests that global views of both powers are becoming more defined, with more people forming clear opinions in both positive and negative directions.

Globally, managers report higher life evaluation than employees they lead, but also more daily stress, anger and sadness.

48% of Democrats and 24% of Republicans interviewed March 2-18 said they expect the U.S. will face a critical energy shortage in the next five years.

A majority (57%) of Hungarian adults lack confidence that their elections are honest, matching other high points in 2023 and 2021.

Nearly half of college students (47%) say they have given at least a fair amount of consideration to changing their major due to the impact of AI on the job market, while 16% report having already done so. Full story from Lumina Foundation and Gallup: on.gallup.com/3PNc22r

Americans’ belief that they pay too much in taxes remains elevated for the fourth consecutive year, with 59% saying this. Most others, 37%, say their taxes are “about right,” while 3% think they are too low.

Only 20% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, down one percentage point from 2024. Two-thirds are not engaged (64%), and 16% are actively disengaged. New data from Gallup's 2026 State of the Global Workplace report: on.gallup.com/4sOpp0K

Across the world, manager engagement dropped to 22% in 2025, a nine-point decline since 2022 and the steepest drop of any employee group in Gallup's global measurement.

Gen Z’s excitement and hopefulness regarding AI declined by 14 and 11 percentage points, respectively, from 2025 to 2026, while anger (31%) toward it increased. Explore the latest findings from Gallup, @WaltonFamilyFdn and @gsvventures: on.gallup.com/4s7zDZb