MENA: approval of arab spring among arab youths 2016

This statistic shows the rate of Arab youths' agreement that the Arab Spring caused an improvement in the Arab world/the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region from 2012 to 2016. In 2012, a 72 percent share of the respondents stated that they agreed that the Arab Spring caused the Arab world to be better off, and by 2016 this number decreased to 36 percent of respondents.

Do you you agree that the Arab world is better off following the Arab Spring?*

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Release date

April 2016

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Region

Africa, MENA

Survey time period

2012 to 2016

Number of respondents

3,500 respondents

Age group

18-24 years

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Interview conducted in Arabic and English

Method of interview

Face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews

Supplementary notes

* The phrasing of this survey question as it appears in the report is as follows: How strongly do you agree or disagree with the statement?: “Following the arab spring, I feel the arab world is better off”.
The countries covered by this survey were Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and Yemen.
The survey did not include Syria due to the ongoing civil war there.
Respondents were exclusevly comprised of citizens of the countries outlined above, with 50% male and 50% female respondents.
The margin of error for this survey is +/-1.65 per cent.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates had 300 respondents. Iraq had 250 respondents and Palestine had 150. Each remaining country had 200 respondents.
The majorty of respondents were from urban areas.

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