Populist youth in Europe 2017

This statistic displays the percentage of right and left-wing populists who are aged between 18 and 29 in 2017 in selected European countries. Populists in this age group are more likely to be left-wing than right, especially in the United Kingdom (UK) where 18-29 year olds make up 35 percent of left-wing populists.

Percentage of right and left-wing populists who are aged between 18 and 29 in selected European countries in 2017

Characteristic	Right-wing populists	Left-wing populist
United Kingdom	20%	35%
Spain	20%	28%
Germany	27%	25%
France	14%	23%
Netherlands	16%	22%
Denmark	21%	20%
Italy	18%	20%

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Release date

July 2018

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Region

Europe

Survey time period

October 30 to December 20, 2017

Number of respondents

16,114**

Age group

18-29 years

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "To create the political groups used for analysis in this report, survey respondents were categorized into seven groups based on their left-right ideological self-placement and whether they express populist views. The six political groups are Left Populists, Left Mainstream, Center Populists, Center Mainstream, Right Populists and Right Mainstream. The seventh is the Unaligned group, which includes respondents who did not answer the ideological self-placement question."

Further information about the methodology used can be found on pages 67-73 of the report.

** Total number of all ages surveyed, no data on what proportion of this is 18 to 29 year olds

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