The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll - 2019 Executive Summary

The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll provides the first global picture of how the world’s citizens see risk and safety and the differences between perception of risk and actual experience. [...] They were interviewed face to face in the majority of cases, including in some of the most remote and challenging parts of the world. [...] LRF_Foreword-Preface_092420_kn The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll Report 2019 Foreword Nearly half a century ago, my colleagues and I began to study risk attitudes and perceptions of some 30 hazardous activities and technologies among small samples of the American public and the emerging community of risk analysts and scholars. [...] LRF_WorldRiskReport_ExecSummary_092420_kn The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll Report 2019 3 Across the world, different groups of people experienced risk in very different ways While there were differences in the types of risks experienced, people in all countries and territories around the world worried about and experienced some form of risk. [...] LRF_WorldRiskReport_ExecSummary_092420_kn The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll Report 2019 Highlights The World Risk Poll explores people’s views about risks in a range of areas: Women and risk • At the time of the survey, 27% of women across the globe felt less safe than they did five years previously.