Latest Edelman Trust Report: 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer
The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer reveals that trust is in crisis around the world. The general population’s trust in all four key institutions — business, government, NGOs, and media — has declined broadly, a phenomenon not reported since Edelman began tracking trust among this segment in 2012.
With the fall of trust, the majority of respondents now lack full belief that the overall system is working for them. In this climate, people’s societal and economic concerns, including globalization, the pace of innovation and eroding social values, turn into fears, spurring the rise of populist actions now playing out in several Western-style democracies.
To rebuild trust and restore faith in the system, institutions must step outside of their traditional roles and work toward a new, more integrated operating model that puts people — and the addressing of their fears — at the center of everything they do.
Edelman Trust Barometer Supplements
- Trust and the U.S. Presidential Election
- Trust in Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa
- Trust in Canada
- Edelman Trust 2017: UK Young Adult Edition
- A Golden State of Mind: Trust in California
- Special Report: Institutional Investors
- Special Report: Family Business
- Special Report: Flash Poll
