China and Canada Share Optimism about the Future
In late 2008, 42 percent expressed confidence about the future.
This optimism was patchy, however, with citizens in India (79% confident), China (78% confident), Australia (73% confident), Canada (66% confident), and the Netherlands (61% confident) expressing the greatest confidence, with between 61 percent to 79 percent of respondents seeing a brighter future.
In Japan only 14 percent of people were confident about the future. This number edged up to 21 percent in France, 25 percent in the Czech Republic and 28 percent in Russia.