OECD Report: “Governments operate in a context of rising public expectations and complex policy challenges, while also facing a critical window of opportunity to adapt and reform institutions and policies to better respond to these needs. In democracies, a healthy level of trust in public institutions will be critical to the implementation of these reforms.
The third OECD Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions provides comparable actionable evidence on levels and key drivers of trust across 33 OECD countries and 5 OECD accession candidate countries in 2025…
Overall trust levels in national government have stabilised at around 40%, while trust remains higher in the civil service, police and courts…
43% of people across OECD countries have low or no trust in the national government, compared with 40% with high or moderately high trust. As per previous survey waves, there are significant variations across countries and population groups. While there was a small decrease in trust in 2023 compared to 2021, trust levels have since stabilised, and substantially improved in about half of the countries where it had previously declined. In most countries, trust in the police, courts, local government and civil service is higher than in national government…(More)”.
