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Gallup reviews its top world findings of 2014 based on surveys conducted in more than 140 countries through the Gallup World Poll.

Nurses again top Americans' list of professions with the highest honesty and ethical standards while members of Congress and car salespeople are rated worst. Ratings of bankers and business executives declined this year.

Americans' ratings of the job the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC, is doing are down significantly from last year, whereas ratings of other key government agencies measured both years are the same or better.

Healthcare costs and access still rank among the leading issues Americans cite when asked to name the country's "most urgent health problem." But these are roughly matched this year by the Ebola virus, mentioned by 17% of Americans.

Americans are most likely to name the economy in general (20%) or the government (19%) as the most important problem facing the country. Mentions of immigration increased from 7% in October to 13% this month.

Americans' favorable rating of the Democratic Party plummeted to a record-low 36% after the party lost control of the Senate in the midterm elections. The GOP's rating remained steady at 42%.

Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index averaged -10 last week, in line with where it has been the past three weeks, and more positive than it has been for most of 2014.

As noted by my colleague Jeff Jones in his recent review, Americans' collective thought given to this election is lower than has been the case in the two most recent midterm elections in 2010 and 2006. Likewise, enthusiasm and self-reported ...

Americans are no more worried about getting Ebola now than they were two weeks ago, but their confidence in the federal government's ability to handle the virus has dipped. Few think there will be a major Ebola outbreak or crisis in the U.S.