Young Hope

In 2021, 34% of people across the world felt less safe than they did five years previously. 13% of people across the world viewed road crashes as the highest perceived risk to personal safety. 27% of people globally experienced harm from severe weather.

The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll, powered by Gallup, creates a comprehensive overview of a spectrum of issues and their perceived risks. From online safety and workplace injury to the safety of food and climate change, the poll generates striking and often surprising insights about how safe people feel, what risks they experience everyday and how such experience of risk differs across the world.

Mirroring the process and methodology of the World Risk Poll, this work gathers responses from an international selection of children aged 8-12, using their insights to build a picture of the biggest problems our world currently faces and what a safer future might look like. The project seeks not only to learn from children's personal experiences and concerns, but crucially place value on those experiences and concerns, giving young people a platform to express how they would build a safer, more optimistic future. It is, after all, the future that they will inherit.

In conversation with Gallup.