Countries With the Lowest Trust in Government

Every country with a figure for trust in government, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Bulgaria (10.5%), Peru (13.5%) and Romania (25.5%). The middle country of the 47 has 43%.

What this measures

Share with confidence in the national government, in % of respondents. Source: Gallup World Poll, compiled in OECD How's Life?. For this measure, higher is better.

Gallup asks whether people have confidence in their national government. The OECD pools three years of answers at a time, so the figures are for 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2024, not every year. The same survey supplies the Cantril ladder, but from a different question. The two are not built from each other, so their pair is a real finding, not shared numbers. It is, though, a finding about one survey.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2024–2024. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on trust in government

• Countries With the Highest Trust in Government
• Trust in government by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.