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Albania among the most optimist countries for new year
More pessimism recorded in Bosnia and Herzegovina
31 December, 17:00
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 31 DIC - Albanian are among the countries
in the world where more people believe that the new year will be
better for them than 2018.
According to the Gallup International's 42nd Annual Global End of Year Survey, 71 per cent of citizens in Albania are optimists for 2019, while only 10% thing that the new year will be worse than 2018. Among the optimist countries in the Balkans also Kosovo, with 51% of respondents convinced that the new year will be, as far as they are concerned, better than 2018, while a 14% declared themselves as pessimists. Also in Macedonia optimism (48%) prevails over pessimisms for the near future (18%), and in Romania (46% of optimists against 25% of pessimists). Quite divided the opinions in Serbia, where the Gallup survey registered a 31% of optimists and a 33% of pessimists, and in Bulgaria (22% of optimists, 30% of pessimists).
On the opposite side of the scale, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which recorded a huge percentage of pessimists (41%) a lower share of optimists (22%). The survey revealed also that in Albania 60% of the respondents are expecting that 2019 will be for the world a more peaceful year than 2018; 45% of respondents from Romania think the same, as well as 43% in Macedonia, 40% in Kosovo, 21% in Serbia, 19% in Bosnia, 15% in Bulgaria. (ANSA).
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According to the Gallup International's 42nd Annual Global End of Year Survey, 71 per cent of citizens in Albania are optimists for 2019, while only 10% thing that the new year will be worse than 2018. Among the optimist countries in the Balkans also Kosovo, with 51% of respondents convinced that the new year will be, as far as they are concerned, better than 2018, while a 14% declared themselves as pessimists. Also in Macedonia optimism (48%) prevails over pessimisms for the near future (18%), and in Romania (46% of optimists against 25% of pessimists). Quite divided the opinions in Serbia, where the Gallup survey registered a 31% of optimists and a 33% of pessimists, and in Bulgaria (22% of optimists, 30% of pessimists).
On the opposite side of the scale, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which recorded a huge percentage of pessimists (41%) a lower share of optimists (22%). The survey revealed also that in Albania 60% of the respondents are expecting that 2019 will be for the world a more peaceful year than 2018; 45% of respondents from Romania think the same, as well as 43% in Macedonia, 40% in Kosovo, 21% in Serbia, 19% in Bosnia, 15% in Bulgaria. (ANSA).
