Ten percent of U.S. adults identify politics as the greatest risk to their personal safety, the highest share recorded among 140 countries in the latest Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll.
The figure rose from 6% in both 2021 and 2023 and was 10 times the global average of 1%, according to an analysis released by Gallup.
The United States was statistically tied with Hungary, where 9% gave the same response. Serbia, Latvia and Lithuania followed at 6% each, while several other countries recorded 5%.
Gallup found no statistically significant differences in the U.S. responses by age, gender, education or political affiliation. Similar shares of Republicans, Democrats and independents named politics as their top safety concern.
Road crashes remained the most commonly cited personal safety risk among Americans at 34%, followed by crime and violence at 19%. Politics nevertheless ranked ahead of health conditions, which were cited by 5%.
The United States was the only country in the poll where more people named politics than health conditions as the biggest daily threat to their safety, Gallup said.
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