FX.co ★ Global downturn instills despair

An American think tank Pew Research Center conducted a survey on people's attitude to the national economic situation. It took 37,653 respondents from 99 countries. According to the findings, publics around the world are displeased with the current conditions of their economies and the rising economic inequality. The residents of the developed countries are much more unhappy with the present state of affairs and lack of prospects than the citizens of the developing ones. The most pessimistic sentiments are in Italy, Spain, and Greece. They are followed by Great Britain, France, Israel, Japan, and the U.S.A. with about 50% of dissatisfied population. Meanwhile, the economic outlooks for Germany, Canada, and Australia are upbeat. China, Malaysia, and other developing nations have even more happy people.
Russia is aspiring to top another international rating. The country has always been known as full of pessimists, and the survey recorded their exact number. More than a half of the Russian Federation's citizens (61%) made a gloomy forecast for the country's state of economic affairs.