Worldwide, the U.S. and Germany enjoy higher leadership approval ratings than China and Russia, a new Gallup report shows.
Survey: Global Approval of U.S. Leadership Remains Higher Under Biden Than Trump
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International approval of United States leadership was mostly unchanged in 2023, continuing to hover around 40%, according to a global survey released Tuesday by the polling giant Gallup.
The report, conducted last year, reached people aged 15 and older in over 130 countries and asked them their thoughts about leadership in four nations: the U.S., Germany, China and Russia. As far as global opinion was concerned, Germany came out on top for the seventh year in a row, with a 46% approval rating.
The U.S. had a leadership median approval rating of 41%, according to the report – that’s unchanged from 2022, but less than in 2021, when it reached 45% during President Joe Biden’s first year in office. The median disapproval rating of the country's leadership under Biden, however, did inch up from 33% in 2022 to 36% in 2023.
Comparatively speaking, Biden enjoyed higher approval ratings than some recent former U.S. presidents – including his predecessor, Donald Trump, whom he will face again in the November election. While Biden has generally been not as popular as his former boss, Barack Obama, the country's 41% approval percentage is higher than any rating it received during Trump's one term in office. It’s also higher than the ratings received under former President George W. Bush during his final two years in the White House.
Approval ratings of U.S. leadership decreased by 10 percentage points or more from 2022 to 2023 in nine of the countries and territories surveyed in both years. The country’s popularity declined by 20 or more points in Gambia and Uganda, and by at least 10 points in India, Finland, Kenya and Ukraine. But U.S. leadership approval rose in 13 countries, many of them being located in Africa. And in Israel, 81% of respondents surveyed two weeks after the Hamas terrorist attack in October 2023 said they approved of U.S. leadership.
Germany’s status as top-rated global power among the group of four countries was unchanged. Median approval of the country under Chancellor Olaf Scholz stood at 46% in both 2022 and 2023.
