Brazilians less optimistic about 2016
A poll by IBOPE Inteligência in collaboration with the Worldwide Independent Network of Market Research found that 50% of Brazilians do not believe that 2016 will be better than 2015. Among them, 13% expect it to be the same and 32% believe it will be worse than last year.
According to the other 50% of the population, 2016 will be better than last year. But this rate is below the global average of 54%, and has also deteriorated from previous years.
“The time series for the survey shows that Brazilians remained optimistic about the coming year, with 73% positive expectations between 2008 and 2014, when the optimism rate first shifted down (57%), followed by a further decline in 2015 (49%),” IBOPE Inteligência reported.
Conversely, the country's pessimism levels are higher than ever reported in the poll. If we look at the data for 2011, for example, we find that only 6% of Brazilians thought they were going to have a worse year than the previous one.
The world's most optimistic country according to the survey is Bangladesh, where 81% of the population think 2016 will be better than 2015. Second to it is Nigeria (78%) followed by China (76%). At the other end of the optimism/pessimism scale is Iraq, where 56% of people believe that this year will be worse than 2015, followed by Italians (52%), and Greeks (51%).
The poll heard 66,040 respondents across 68 countries between September and December 2015. In Brazil, 2,002 people were interviewed.
Translated by Mayra Borges
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