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Breakdown of Arab youth's financial situation in the Middle East and North Africa in 2020, by region

Characteristic	Pretty bad/Poor	Average	Excellent/Pretty good
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Release date

October 2020

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Region

MENA

Survey time period

January 19 to August 26, 2020

Number of respondents

4,000 respondents

Age group

18-24 years

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Interview conducted in Arabic and English

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview, online survey

Supplementary notes

The survey question was as follows: "How would you describe your current financial situation?".
The study was conducted in in two parts:
The first part was The Main Survey conducted in 17 countries between January 19 and March 3 2020 before the coronavirus outbreak with a count of 3,400 face-to face interviews, Covered countries were Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen. Syria and Sudan were recently added to the latest year's version of the survey in 2020. Each country had 200 respondent. Margin of error for this survey was +/-1.7 percent.
The second COVID-19 Pulse Survey between August 18 and 26, 2020 following the COVID-19 crisis with a count of 600 face-to-face and online interviews divided equally between six countries: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Lebanon, Algeria, and Egypt. Margin of error for this survey was +/-4.0 percent.
All respondents were exclusively citizens of their countries and they were 50% male and female.

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The results of a survey in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2020 about the Arab youth showed that the largest share of Arab youth respondents who thought their financial situation was pretty good were in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries at ** percent of GCC respondents. In comparison, ** percent of young Arab respondents from the Levant region thought that their financial situation was pretty bad.