Only a quarter of Britons (24%) rate their current personal financial situation as strong, compared to almost half of Swedes (47%), an international poll has suggested.
UK financial attitudes were of a similar level to those in Mexico, South Africa and Spain (23%), according to new research from Ipsos's Global @dvisor online survey.
However they were well below those of India (58%), Canada (41%), the United States (38%) and Germany (32%).
People in France displayed a more pessimistic outlook about their personal financial situation (21%), as did those in Hungary (10%), Italy (12%) and Japan (13%).
Britons also appeared fairly downbeat about the prospects of improvement with just one in five (20%) Britons expecting their personal financial situation to be stronger in the next six months, in line with Spain (21%) and Poland (23%).
In contrast 84% in Brazil expressed optimism about their financial future, with Germany on 26%, the United States on 33% and Canada on 34%.
France and Hungary revealed a more gloomy attitude on the next six months with 9% in each country predicting any improvement in their financial situation.
According to the poll, around one in five (18%) Britons said it was likely they, a family member or someone they knew would lose their job in the next six months, in line with France (17%).
A high level of anxiety about job losses was expressed in Hungary and Mexico (34%), in contrast to more confident attitudes in Sweden and Germany (9%), plus Japan (10%).
Simon Atkinson, assistant chief executive of Ipsos MORI, said: "On the economy Brits have been among the gloomiest nations in the world throughout 2011, and this just shows that the concern is also of a personal nature. We are more negative about our financial prospects than our North American cousins but not as bad as the French and Italians."
The survey, conducted at the end of November, was based on an international sample of 18,682 people aged between 16 and 64 across 24 countries.
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