Ipsos: improving outlooks

Half of the world's citizens (52 percent) do not mind, that the year 2012 ends, because it was a negative period in terms of their own and family’s lives.  The year evaluation of the Hungarians is the most negative, 74 percent say it was a bad year.

The vision of the citizens of the world is especially promising: 80 percent assumes that in 2013 the whole year will be better than the current one was. This general optimism is typical among the Hungarians as well. The number of optimists is 80 percent. The economic expectations are not so favorable, but a 49 percent expects improvement worldwide. The hopes of the Hungarian population are more modest, only 38 percent believe that the economy will be stronger next year.