01/01/2022
- Doctors are considered as one of the most professions, across 28 markets globally while politicians turned out to be the least , according to the Ipsos' Global Trustworthiness Index.
In many countries, an increase in trustworthiness in the doctors' profession was mostly to the COVID-19 pandemic, News18 reported.
As per the survey, on a scale, an average of 64 per cent voted doctors as the most trustworthy professionals, followed by scientists at 61 per cent and teachers at 55 per cent.
At the bottom of the table, only 10 per cent of people on average found politicians as trustworthy, 14 per cent opined the same about government ministers, and 15 per cent for the advertising executives.
Among the countries, Great Britain led in trusting doctors, with 72 per cent rating them as trustworthy, a proportion which has increased slightly since 2018 (67 per cent). Dutch similarly highly trust Doctors (71 per cent) and Canadians (70 per cent).
Yet the most notable changes over the last few years were seen in and , the proportion rating doctors as trustworthy has increased by 19 percentage points between 2019 and 2021. The number has also risen in Saudi Arabia, Poland, Brazil, and Russia over the same period.
