60% of the population believed other people could be trusted; today, it’s down to 29%. The “good” news of this study—relatively speaking—is that 68% of Scandinavians (Denmark, Sweden, and Norway) and 68% of the people in the Netherlands believe others can be trusted, indicating that there are some higher-trust societies. And The Netherland’s figure has increased by 23 absolute percentage points in a five-year period, which demonstrates that it is possible to increase societal trust.
