About the Index
The Kectil Global Youth Index is the public data product of Kectil's Youth Speak work. It exists to make youth voices durable, comparable, and impossible to round away — and to give policymakers, researchers, journalists, and donors a citable, open source to build on.
Index purpose
The Global Youth Index turns Kectil Youth Speak research into a public, citable, aggregate-only platform.
The Index exists to make youth voices durable, comparable, and useful to researchers, policymakers, journalists, donors, and partners.
The fundamentals
Each pillar reflects how the survey is actually run and reported. The methodology page documents the details.
The priorities, anxieties, and hopes in 4,958 survey responses across 113 home countries — tracked across comparable themes in 2025 and 2026.
Fourteen question families of 1-5 agreement statements, asked the same way in 2025 and 2026 so year-over-year movement can be measured, not just described.
Invited participants in the Kectil Youth Development Program. Results describe this respondent pool — they are not nationally representative population estimates.
Identifying details are stripped before analysis, only aggregate results are published, and small samples are flagged in public views and suppressed in exports.
Why it exists
Kectil has been nurturing and networking high-potential youth in developing countries since its founding. Through the Kectil Program and the Youth Speak surveys, a clear gap emerged: brilliant youth voices were being heard inside the network, but rarely reached the institutions whose decisions shape their futures.
The Kectil Global Youth Index is the bridge. It is not a marketing instrument, and it is not a one-off report. It is a public, permanent, interactive record — designed so a finance minister, a newsroom editor, a PhD student, and a community organizer can all open the same page and walk away with what they need.
Everything on this site is built to be cited, compared, and improved on. If you spot a way to make it better, tell us.That is exactly the spirit of the thing.
Editorial principles
Four commitments that shape every chart, export, and quote on this site.
No chart ever re-identifies a respondent. Samples below 10 respondents are flagged as directional in public views and suppressed in exports.
Every theme and region is paired with verbatim quotes so the stories behind the statistics are never dropped.
The 2025 and 2026 surveys are compared as respondent pools, not a panel of the same individuals — and the site says so wherever the comparison appears.
Headline findings, methodology, and published reports are free to download and cite.
How to interpret the findings
A practical route through the site for journalists, policymakers, researchers, and donors landing here for the first time.
The executive summary is the clearest one-read overview: headline findings for decision-makers, drawn straight from the survey tables.
The methodology page documents how results are calculated, the sample sizes behind them, and the original question wording.
Browse focused questions by theme, read the 1-5 response distributions, and export the aggregate rows as CSV.
The voices explorer publishes approved open-text responses from real respondents — the context charts can't give you.
“I hope for a future where youths can be true lead voices in policy changes and the development of the country.”
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