By Anna Fleck for Statista While global optimism for 2023 has dropped, despite everything, the world is still on average more hopeful than not. According to the latest data from Ipsos, a global average of 65% of respondents say they feel optimistic that 2023 will be better than 2022. Yet as our chart shows, that’s down 12 percentage points from last year and the lowest score recorded since Ipsos started running the survey, Statista reports. Of course, a global average as a single figure hides the differences between countries. For instance, when looking at an international breakdown, Brazil ha…