According to the End of Year Survey, which was conducted by the international organisation the Voice of the People and which covered 48,500 respondents from 56 countries, the leading world optimists are Pacific and African countries (Vietnam, Hong Kong, Ghana) and European countries Kosovo, Georgia and Sweden, while Croatia is among the five leading pessimists, along with Greece, Portugal, Iraq and Italy.
Slightly less than one-third of the world population expects economic progress in 2007, and slightly less than one-fourth of Croatians expect 2007 to be a year of economic progress.
Some 41 percent of respondents both on the global level and in Croatia expect higher unemployment, and as many people believe that 2007 will be a problematic year.
The Croatian survey was conducted by the Puls agency.