The Global Subnational Trust Database (SUB-TRUST)

The Global Subnational Trust Database (SUB-TRUST) is a dataset in which subnational estimates of social (interpersonal) and political (institutional) trust from 153 countries across the world have been created and harmonized without interpolation. The data are based on nationally representative surveys from over 22 cross-national and national surveys spanning the years 1980 to 2024 (N > 6 million respondents). SUB-TRUST will mainly be useful for researchers and practitioners seeking to understand the variation in trust across subnational entities, countries, institutions, and over time, and the consequences of this variation.