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According to the results of the fifth edition of the Arab Barometer, 77% of young Moroccans are safer to receive information on websites than in newspapers and TV news, while the percentage is much lower among Moroccans more 30 years, at 45%, and in second place, we find Egyptians (74%). Next are the Lebanese (67%), followed by Palestinian youth (56%).
Iraqi youth ranks fifth (53%), followed by Sudanese (51%) and less than half of young Algerians (49%), Yemenis and Tunisians (47%) and Libyans (41%), and Jordanian youths. have less confidence in communication sites by 36%.
| Source: The official website of the Arab barometer |
The Arab barometer surveyed 25,000 young people in Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Sudan, Palestine, Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria. The survey was conducted by direct interview between September 2018 and April 2019. The authors of the survey estimated the error rate at 2% in most countries. Covered.
The difference in the level of trust in communication sites varied from country to country between the younger and older age groups. In Jordan, the difference was two points for the first category, the gap was five points in Libya, three points in Yemen and Sudan, while the difference was larger in Lebanon (16). And Egypt (18).
Young people aged 15 to 29 account for almost a third of the population in the Middle East and North Africa.
The largest platform
Unsurprisingly, Facebook was the most widely used social media platform for young people in these countries, with the exception of Yemen, whose youth reported using WhatsApp more than Facebook from 46% to 36%.
Young Egyptians were more likely to use Facebook (94%) than their counterparts from Arab countries surveyed, while Palestinians were the least likely (73%).
The report points out that young Yemenis are the most used social networking sites. 99% of respondents say they use these sites and the proportion of other Arab countries is close to 98% in Jordan and 97% in Iraq and Lebanon. Among young people from Palestine, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, up to 94% in Algeria and Sudan.
Young people in Arab countries travel through communication sites for at least two hours. There is no significant difference in the duration of exposure to these sites between the category of young people aged 18 to 29 and between 30 and over.
With the exception of Yemen and Libya, 90 percent or more of the youth in the Arab countries surveyed have access to the Internet, this percentage is increasing to 99 percent in Lebanon and Yemen's youth are less than 77 percent lucky.
The gap in Internet use between young and older age groups widens to 30 percentage points in Yemen and North Africa and to 20 points in Lebanon , in Jordan and Palestine.
Execution agency
The Arab Barometer presents itself as an "independent and non-partisan research network that provides insights into the social, political and economic trends and values of ordinary citizens of the Arab world" and has been conducting opinion polls since 2006.
The Arab barometer is headed by a steering committee composed of four institutions in the Arab region: the Center for Strategic Studies of the University of Jordan, the Palestinian Center for Policy Research and Investigation, the 39; Institute of Social, Economic Research and Investigation of the University of Qatar and the Individual Foundation for Research and Investigations. Tunisia, the committee also includes researchers working at Princeton and Michigan universities.
| 42% of Iraqi youth say they are religious (Anatolia) |
Religiosity rate
42% of Iraqi youth say they are religious, whereas they represent only 36% of Egyptians, 33% of Yemenis and one point less than Palestinians: 24% of young Moroccans, 23% of Lebanese and 22% of Jordanians. Libyans have 18%, young Tunisians 16% and Algerians 15%.
The survey indicates that the percentage of religious among the youth of the 11 Arab countries has increased compared to the previous version of the barometer, increasing 12 points in Egypt, seven points in Yemen, six points in Tunisia and Iraq , by two points in Morocco and Libya, while it declined in Sudan. 12 percentage points), Palestine (9 points), Jordan (7 points), Algeria (3 points) and Lebanon (2 points).
Interest in politics
The results of the survey show that the barometer is of little interest for politics in Arab countries: only one third of young Lebanese are interested in politics and this percentage drops to 29% in Yemen and Palestine and 28% in Sudan.
The percentage in Egypt is 27%, in Jordan 25%, in Morocco 23%, in Iraq and Libya 21%, and the Arab youths who are the least interested in politics are Tunisians (17%). %) and Algerians (15%).
In the countries studied, with the exception of Iraq and Lebanon, the policy concerns young people a little less than the older groups, and the gap in Tunisia and Palestine is more important. widens to 10 percentage points.
| Source: The official website of the Arab barometer |
Turkey and Iran
The results of the Arab barometer show that the support given to the young people interviewed to establish strong external relations between their country and Turkey ranges from the highest 82% among Jordanians to the lowest 18% among Egyptians.
Support for strong relations with Turkey remains much higher than that for strong external relations with Iran, with only 38% in Lebanon and 8% in Egypt.
The youngest in favor of close ties with Ankara – after the Jordanians – are the Palestinians (75%), Sudanese (73%), Tunisians (64%), Yemenis (61%), Moroccans (56%), Algerians (53%), Iraqis (45%), Lebanese (41%), Libyans (36%) and Egyptians are the last.
While the most important support for a strong relationship with Tehran concerned the Lebanese, then the Sudanese (36%), the Palestinians (34%), the Iraqis (32%) and the Tunisians. Moroccans (22%), Jordanians (21%), Yemenis and Algerians (20%), Libyans (18%) and Egyptians (31%).
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