Corruption is the biggest worry and so is terrorism

Corruption appears to be the biggest problem facing India while for the rest of the world it’s terrorism. According to the 2015 HT-MaRS Youth Survey, 32.7% of the voters feel corruption is India’s biggest hurdle and 30% believe terrorism poses a major threat to national security.

Unsurprisingly, women’s security is high on the minds of the youth with 23.6% voting for it.

The number increases substantially among women (31.8%) and takes a nosedive among men (15.4%).

As many as 13.7% of the respondents feel that unemployment is a huge problem facing the world. Ironically, the section of the youth that believes this the most is the one that is fully employed (15.8%).Climate change should be pretty high up on this list if data are to be believed. Much has been made of the changing climate but not many voted for it. Only 2.4% feel India needs to be worried while the number increases only slightly to 5.7% when it comes to the world.

Issues such as depleting natural resources (5.5%), hunger and malnutrition (7.1%) and access to healthcare (2.1%) received very little attention.

“Poverty is the biggest problem in our country,” says Delhi’s Saloni Sinha, 22. “It stems from corruption.”

And related issues such as a lack of economic infrastructure, a much publicised concern during last year’s Lok Sabha elections, and a lack of quality education seem to remain low on people’s minds (6.6% and 5.3% respectively).

For Indians, pollution and environmental degradation are remarkably even lower on the scale of the most pressing concerns of this age (2.4%).