The new 2020 World Cultural Map has been released

The World Values Survey Association is happy to present the new 2020 (provisional) world cultural map based on the newest WVS and European Values Study survey data. The cultural map methodology developed by the WVSA Founder Ronald Inglehart and the WVSA Vice-President Christian Welzel asserts that there are two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world: traditional values versus secular-rational values and survival values versus self-expression values. The global cultural map shows how scores of societies are located on these two dimensions. The 2020 map is the provisional version of the WVS wave 7 map with the final map to be released in Fall 2021 upon the completion of the wave.

More information about the map design and interpretation is available in the section "Findings and Insights".