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        "msgid": "countries-least-trusting-of-science-where-does-indonesia-rank-1793195439",
        "date": "2026-10-28 19:40:00",
        "title": "Countries Least Trusting of Science: Where Does Indonesia Rank?",
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        "source": "CNBC",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "The Wellcome Global Monitor 2026 reports that global trust in science fell to 72% in 2025, down from 80% in 2020. Indonesia ranked 89th among 140 countries for the share of respondents who said they trusted science a great deal, trailing the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam but ahead of Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta \u2013 Public trust in science and scientists has continued to\ndecline since the Covid-19 pandemic, a study has found.<\/p>\n<p>The Wellcome Global Monitor 2026 report says that only 72% of people\nworldwide said they trusted science in 2025, down from 80% in 2020. The\nfigure was also lower than in the first survey in 2018, when 77% of\nrespondents said they trusted science.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the proportion of people with little or no trust in\nscience has risen. In 2025, 19% of respondents said they did not trust\nscience very much or did not trust it at all, up from 13% in both 2018\nand 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Wellcome Global Monitor survey was conducted in 2025 as part\nof the Gallup World Poll, involving more than 140,000 respondents across\n140 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The survey used nationally representative samples gathered through\nin-person, telephone and online interviews. Its analysis combined\nsocio-economic indicators, including education, income, employment,\nwellbeing and inequality, to examine factors associated with public\ntrust in science.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trust in science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report does not explicitly list the countries with the least\ntrust in science. However, based on its ranking of countries with high\ntrust in science, these were at the bottom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><p>Togo (5.8%)<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>North Macedonia (8.2%)<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Somalia (9.1%)<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Georgia (9.1%)<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Pakistan (9.3%)<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Jamaica (10.2%)<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Moldova (10.4%)<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Albania (10.8%)<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Mauritius (11.7%)<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>The Gambia (12.2%)<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spain ranked first, with 67.9% of respondents saying they trusted\nscience a great deal, followed by Finland at 65.9%.<\/p>\n<p>The next two places went to Central Asian countries Uzbekistan\n(63.8%) and Tajikistan (60.7%). Both ranked ahead of several countries\nwith more advanced research and technology industries, including the\nUnited States, the United Kingdom and France.<\/p>\n<p>The US ranked 13th, at 52.5%, while the UK came 14th with 51.2% and\nFrance 16th with 50.2%.<\/p>\n<p>So where did Indonesia rank?<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia placed 89th out of 140 countries, well below several\nneighbours: the Philippines (37.6%), Singapore (32%) and Vietnam\n(31.7%).<\/p>\n<p>It nevertheless ranked ahead of Malaysia (18.7%), Cambodia (18.4%)\nand Thailand (13.2%).<\/p>\n<p>These figures measure only the share of respondents who said they\ntrusted science a great deal, not everyone who expressed some degree of\ntrust in scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Countries with advanced education and innovation systems were\nprominent near the top of the ranking. Finland, Germany and Sweden, for\nexample, were all among the top 10 countries for high trust in\nscience.<\/p>\n<p>The findings also revealed a different pattern: Uzbekistan and\nTajikistan outperformed several developed countries despite differing\nlevels of economic development and research capacity.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that economic and educational progress alone cannot\nexplain differences in public trust in science. Wellcome researchers\nsaid they found no strong evidence of a consistent relationship between\ntrust in science and scientific literacy.<\/p>",
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