Optimism is rife among urban Indians for 2024, with 87% expecting it to be a better year, according to the findings of the latest Ipsos Global Predictions surveyed. 70% of global citizens also have a positive outlook for next year.
Also, 8 in 10 urban Indians (84%) say they are willing to make personal resolutions and specific changes for themselves in 2024. And 85% of Indians are also hopeful that the global economy will do better in 2024.
According to the IPSOS survey, 67% of urban Indians expect doctors in India to use artificial intelligence regularly, to decide on treatments for their patients. Interestingly, 61% of urban Indians believe in 2024, robots will look, think, and speak like humans. The biggest upside, 65% of urban Indians polled believe artificial intelligence will lead to many new jobs being created in the country.
Also, 71% of urban Indians expect women to be paid the same as men for the same work. 71% expect India to win more medals in the 2024 Summer Olympics than the last one. 66% believe people in the country will become more tolerant of each other.
And 1 in 2 Indians (53%) expect the total size of the population of the country to fall in 2024, for a country that has become the world’s most populous nation.
These are the results of a 34-country survey conducted by Ipsos on its Global Advisor online platform and, in India, on its IndiaBus platform, between Friday, October 20, and Friday, November 3, 2023.
For this survey, Ipsos interviewed a total of 25,292 adults aged 18 years and older in India, 18-74 in Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States, 20-74 in Thailand, 21-74 in Indonesia and Singapore, and 16-74 in all other countries.
Amit Adarkar, CEO, Ipsos India, said, “Majority of our citizens have a positive outlook for 2024, predicting it to be a better year for them. Though they are bracing themselves up for a tougher year in terms of inflation, rising prices, higher interest rates and higher unemployment. Year 2023 was a bad year is the majority verdict. The year saw many upheavals due to inflation, rise in prices of essential commodities, yo-yo of fuel prices, drought and floods and violence in certain parts of the country. The predictions for 2024 hinge a lot on optimism, of office workers going more often physically to work, govt taking stringent measures to reduce the carbon footprint, pay parity of women with men doing the same work, citizens becoming more tolerant of one another and India bagging more medals in its kitty in the summer Olympics. AI is expected to stave off some jobs and create new ones, so this will put a lot of emphasis on reskilling. Cautious optimism is the approach for 2024, as there is also fear of a new more severe pandemic and natural disasters.”
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