Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing To Fight A War For Their Country

Map created by reddit user Spartharios

The map above shows the percentage of residents in various European countries who are willing to fight and go to war for their country.

Full results below:

From high to low, these are the percentages by country:

74% – Finland
73% – Turkey
62% – Ukraine
59% – Russia
58% – Kosovo
55% – Bosnia and Herzegovina
55% – Sweden
54% – Greece
47% – Poland
46% – Serbia
41% – Latvia
39% – Switzerland
38% – Ireland
38% – Macedonia
38% – Romania
37% – Denmark
29% – France
28% – Portugal
27% – United Kingdom
26% – Iceland
25% – Bulgaria
23% – Czech Republic
21% – Austria
21% – Spain
20% – Italy
19% – Belgium
18% – Germany
15% – The Netherlands

The results are from a 2015 WIN/Gallup International global survey. The sample size and methodology was as follows:

A total of 62,398 persons were interviewed globally. In each country a representative sample of around 1000 men and women was interviewed either face to face (30 countries; n=32258), via telephone (12 countries; n=9784) or online (22 countries; n=20356). Details are attached. The field work was conducted during September 2014 – December 2014. The margin of error for the survey is between 2.14 and 4.45 +3-5% at 95% confidence level.

Europe is the continent with the fewest people willing to fight a war for their country. Globally, an average of 61% of respondents in 64 countries said they would. Morocco (94%), Fiji (94%), Pakistan (89%), Vietnam (89%) and Bangladesh (86%) had the highest percentage willing to fight.

The country with the fewest people willing to go to war was Japan, with just 11% of respondents saying they would fight.

From the end of World War Two up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe has been relatively peaceful with major exceptions of the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s and the various political repressions during the Cold War (e.g. Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Soviet invasion of Hungary 1956, and East German uprising of 1953)

However, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 risks escalating into a wider war. So Gallup re-ran the poll in 2023 with the following results:

Map created by @Amazing__Maps

Here are the updated results:

Country	Yes (%)	No (%)	DK/NR
Armenia	96	2	2
Saudi Arabia	94	2	3
Azerbaijan	88	9	3
Pakistan	86	8	6
Georgia	83	12	5
Afghanistan	82	14	5
Kosovo	79	14	7
India	76	16	9
Iran	74	22	4
Iraq	71	29
Malaysia	68	19	13
Peru	64	29	6
Mexico	63	32	6
Ukraine	62	33	4
Albania	60	28	12
Indonesia	60	23	18
Ecuador	58	33	8
Kazakhstan	58	26	16
Kenya	56	43	1
Moldova	55	39	6
Syria	55	42	3
Thailand	50	39	10
Philippines	48	43	8
Argentina	47	25	29
Sweden	47	25	28
Republic of Korea	46	36	18
Poland	45	32	23
Romania	42	39	19
Switzerland	41	38	20
United States	41	34	25
Bosnia & Herzegovina	40	47	13
Portugal	39	37	24
Serbia	36	50	14
Canada	34	37	29
North Macedonia	34	51	15
United Kingdom	33	50	17
Russia	32	20	48
Bulgaria	30	42	29
Nigeria	30	54	16
Spain	29	53	18
Hong Kong	28	42	30
Germany	23	57	20
Austria	20	62	18
Italy	14	78	8
Japan	9	50	41