Nearly three-quarters of residents of countries with some of the world’s most advanced economies worry that climate change will one day create suffering in their own lives, according to a far-reaching survey published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.

The findings, based on responses from a representative sample of nearly 20,000 people in 17 countries spanning North America, Europe and Asia, underscore growing concerns about global warming — and how even wealthy nations can no longer avoid the worsening consequences.

“There are multiple data points showing that people do seem to be increasingly concerned about this issue on a global level,” Jacob Poushter, a co-author of Tuesday’s report and associate director of research at Pew, said in an interview.

He noted that concerns about the personal impacts of climate change have increased significantly in most countries surveyed, although not in the United States, since the organization last posed the question in 2015. The survey was completed in the spring, before a devastating summer season that brought climate-fueled wildfires, heat waves, droughts, floods and extreme storms to many parts of the world.

Eleni Myrivili, chief heat officer for Athens, an official tasked with helping the Greek capital adjust to mounting heat waves and their effects, noted that Pew’s data showed that even before the summer fires, 87 percent of Greeks were concerned about the personal impact of climate change, despite a lack of government action on the issue. “It shows the distance between what people think and what politicians have been doing up to now,” Myrivili said.

In Germany, where catastrophic flooding this summer that killed more than 180 people, the share of the population “very concerned” about the personal impact of climate change increasing by 19 percentage points to 37 percent between 2015 and 2021 — the greatest increase seen in any country.

Brigitte Knopf, secretary-general of the Berlin-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, said that even before the floods, a summer heat wave in 2018 had demonstrated that climate change is “not something happening in the far future.”

Tuesday’s survey also found that the vast majority of people in the 17 nations surveyed — a list that includes South Korea, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Singapore — say they would be willing to make at least some changes to how they live and work to help tackle the problem. That includes about three-quarters of Canadians and Americans.

But at the same time, mixed views persist on international efforts to slow the Earth’s warming, and whether policies to that end would harm economies around the world. In a small number of countries, including Japan and to a lesser degree in the United States, concern about the personal harm caused by climate change declined between 2015 and 2021, Pew found.

Overall, Tuesday’s survey adds to mounting evidence that in many parts of the world, people increasingly see climate change as a looming economic and security threat, but lack consensus on the best ways to solve it.