Institutional trust is one of the key dimensions of trust in society that demonstrates how people perceive institutions and how well they are operating. Building or maintaining institutional trust is of vital importance in democratic societies since negative experiences with government or other...

Using the Worldwide COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs dataset covering 108,918 respondents from 178 countries, the paper examines the determinants of public trust in governments during the COVID-19. It is found that older and healthy people trust more to their governments. Education is negatively...