Unemployment rates are related to perceptions of national economic conditions in EU countries % who say the current economic situation in their country is bad
This pattern is not uniformly the case, however. People in France and the UK stand out for being much less optimistic than their counterparts in nations with similar youth unemployment rates. French and British adults, in fact, are about as pessimistic about the financial future of the next generation as people in Italy, Spain and Greece – even though France and the UK have youth unemployment rates that are roughly 10 to 20 percentage points lower.
Unemployment rates are related to perceptions of  | national economic conditions in EU countries  | % who say the current economic situation in their country is bad  | 100%  | Greece  | Italy  | Bulgaria  | France  | Spain  | UK  | Hungary  | Slovakia  | Czech Rep.  | Lithuania  | Poland  | Sweden  | Germany  | Correlation = +0. .74  | Netherlands  | 10  | 15  | 20  | 25  | 2008 unemployment rate  | Source: Spring 2019 Global Attitud es Survey, Q3, Unemployment data from Eurostat  | accessed on Nov. 12, 2019.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 