NEW YORK (Reuters)-nearly 15 percent of people believe the end of the world in the course of their lives will be worldwide and 10 percent think that the Mayan calendar could mean that it will happen in 2012 according to a new survey.
The end of the Mayan calendar, which stretches over about 5.125 years on 21 December 2012 broke interpretations and evidence that it marked the end of the world.
"If they think that it thinks one to an end by the hands of God, or a natural disaster or a political event, which is also the reason, seven, that is the end of the world," said Keren Gottfried, research manager at Ipsos global public affairs the the poll for Reuters.
"Perhaps it is prophecy, which States that the world 'end' in our calendar year due to the attention of the media from an interpretation of the Maya 2012," said Gottfried, adding that some Maya researchers have disputed the interpretation.
Reply 16.262 people in more than 20 countries the belief in an impending Armageddon, in their lifetime, compared to 22 percent in Turkey and the United States and slightly less in South Africa and Argentina to the international survey differently with only six percent of the French people.
But only seven percent in Belgium and eight percent in Britain feared an end of the world in their lives.
About one in 10 people around the world also said they were fear or anxiety about the impending end of the world in 2012 experience. The largest numbers were in Russia and Poland, the least in the UK.
Gottfried also said that people with low education or household were under 35 years of age, income, and the rather believe in an Apocalypse in the course of their lives or in 2012, or are afraid about the Outlook.
"Perhaps those who are older have lived long enough to happening not so with what their future will be affected" she explained.
Ipsos respondents people in China, Turkey, Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Argentina, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Australia, Italy, South Africa, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Germany.
(Reporting by Chris Michaud;) (Editing by Patricia Reaney)
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