Mastodawn

This chart from Pew Research Center shows the level of public trust across 25 countries. There's a clear correlation between wealth and trust.

BUT, the U.S. deviates from many of its fellow rich nations:

"While the U.S. has the highest per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) of the countries surveyed, the share of Americans who say most people can be trusted is similar to that in less wealthy nations like Indonesia and Spain."

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Mathias Black Mar 14

The way I read this: countries have the ability to turn wealth into trust, but the richest nation in the world fails to do so.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/01/where-most-people-trust-others-and-where-they-dont-around-the-world/

Where most people trust others and where they don’t around the world

Trust tends to be higher in the high-income countries surveyed than in the middle-income ones.

Pew Research Center