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While 56% of Americans favor stricter gun laws in general and 52% back an assault weapons ban, a near-record-low 20% support banning handguns.

New data from the Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll show that road accidents are still the biggest perceived safety risk worldwide.

New data from the World Risk Poll show that most of the world's workforce has never had safety and health training at work.

New Gallup data from 2024 show that the Lebanese people were already struggling financially and emotionally before the latest escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.

U.S. leadership approval among Palestinians has hit a record low. Meanwhile, U.S. humanitarian efforts in Gaza are viewed as a failure.

Gallup data from 2024 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem show how the conflict has eroded Palestinians' feelings of safety, economic confidence and hopes for their children's future.

Nearly one year after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, Israelis still feel less safe and experience more negative emotions than before.

Nearly one year after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, hopes for permanent peace and support for a two-state solution remain equally low in Israel, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Gallup's latest update on global safety shows people worldwide feel safer today than they did a decade ago, but many countries have a long way to go.

Americans remain largely dissatisfied with the quality of K-12 education in the U.S., but satisfaction has risen slightly over the past year.

Data from the 2024 World Risk Poll Resilience Report show that most people who experience disasters are warned beforehand, but there is a long way to go to achieve the U.N.'s goal of "Early Warnings for All."

Ahead of Ecuador's security referendum on Sunday, Gallup data show no other region in the world, apart from active war zones, feels less secure than Guayas.

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Surveys conducted in the Palestinian Territories before the Israel-Hamas war show the majority of Palestinians living in Gaza struggled to afford food.

Fifty-six percent of U.S. adults want gun laws to be stricter, consistent with most Gallup polling over the past 30 years.

Gallup's latest update on its annual Law and Order Index reveals a shakeup in the least and most safe countries in the world.

U.S. women are about as satisfied as U.S. men with most major aspects of their lives and are largely satisfied with women's position in the country, but they trail men when it comes to their sense of financial and personal security.

Black women in the U.S. face unique challenges beyond those experienced by Black Americans more broadly.

Ecuador now ranks as the least safe country in Latin America, thanks to escalating gang violence, drug trafficking and civil unrest in 2022.

Look back at public opinion in the aftermath of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings in 2012 and the evolution of Americans' views of gun control since then.