Large increase in people saying the standard of living has improved after 1989/: 1991 living changes % who say the changes that have taken place since 1989/1991 have had a good influence on standardof
Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people in many former communist countries in Europe see greatly improved standards of living. Since 1991, there have been large increases in the share of adults who think the changes that swept through the region in 1989 and 1991 have had a good influence on living standards in their country. In Poland, for example, only 14% of people said in 1991 that the recent changes had had a positive influence on living standards. By 2019, that figure had shot up to 81%, more than a fivefold increase. In Lithuania, the share saying this has soared from just 9% in 1991 to 70% this year.
Large increase in people saying the  | standard of living has improved after  | 1989/: 1991 living changes  | % who say the changes that have taken place since  | 1989/1991 have had a good influence on standardof  | living  | 90%  | Poland 81%  | Czech Rep. 78  | Germany Rep. 75  | o Lithuania 70  | Slovakia 61  | Hungary 55  | 38%  | Russia 37  | Bulgaria 32  | o Ukraine 28  | 14 14  | 14 14 I 0  | 1991  | 2019  | Note: in Bul garla the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland  | and Slova kia, question asked since 1989 in Lithuania Russia  | and Ukraine, question asked since 1991." in 1991, this question  | asked lover the past year or so,  | Source: Spring 2019 Global Attitudes Survey, Q21d,  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 