North Africa: promoting stability vs promoting democracy 2016

This statistic shows the opinions among Arab youths from North Africa on whether they agree that given the current circumstances in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, promoting stability in the region is more important than promoting democracy, as of February 2016. A 58 percent share of the respondents stated that they agreed that promoting stability is more important in the Middle East than promoting democracy, given the current circumstances there.

Is promoting stability more important than promoting democracy in the Middle East and North Africa according to North African youth?*

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Release date

April 2016

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Region

Africa

Survey time period

January 11 to February 22, 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 interview

Supplementary notes

* The original question stated by the source is as follows: How strongly do you agree or disagree with the statement? “Given the current circumstances in the middle east, promoting stability in the region is more important than promoting democracy”.
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 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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