The Pew Research Center talked with people in 44 countries to find out what they see as the world’s biggest danger. The study included the opinions of over 48,000 people and found that their view of global threats is formulated according to where they live.

In Greece, 43% of people view inequality as the greatest threat, followed by nuclear weapons (23%), pollution and environment issues (14%), religious and ethnic hatred (10%) and AIDS and other diseases (9%).

Both Europeans and the United States saw inequality as a big threat that reveals the degree to which people are feeling the after-effects of the 2008 global economic slowdown. “People in Spain and Greece, among the hardest hit by the Eurocrisis, are especially worried,” points out Pew. “In fact, worries about inequality have doubled in Spain since 2007, as well as in italy, another economically damaged southern European country.”

In Japan, the only country where nuclear weapons have been used and the country where the Fukushima disaster took place, almost half the people say that numclear weapons are the world’s greatest threat. Of course, there is a trend in Japan for younger people to worry less than the older generation that has vivid memories of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

On their part, Middle easterners see religious and ethnic hatred as a top global threat.

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