1/ A new survey shows that global trust in the United States has plummeted since Donald Trump returned to office. Trump himself is less popular internationally than Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. Israel and Iran come out as the least popular countries in the world. ⬇️
2/ The Alliance of Democracies has published its annual Democracy Perception Index, the world's largest annual survey on democracy. 111,000 respondents across 100 countries were surveyed between 9-23 April 2025.
3/ The survey shows that the net perception rating of the United States fell from +22% last year to -5% this year, just ahead of Russia with -9%. The share of countries with a positive image of the US dropped from 76% last year to 45% this year. China went up from +5% to +14%.
4/ The US is now the seventh least popular country in the world in terms of respondents' perceptions. The bottom three are Belarus (-21%), Israel (-23%) and Iran (-25%). While Russia and China have improved their ratings significantly since 2022, the US has fallen sharply.
5/ Globally, perceptions of the US are now deeply negative in Canada, Mexico, most of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, China, Australia and south-east Asia. Only Ukraine, sub-Saharan Africa, South America, India, Thailand and the Philippines are still net positive.
6/ Sentiment has swung in favour of China worldwide, with only Poland, Ukraine, Georgia and Japan standing out as still being strongly pro-US. Most other countries have become mildly or strongly pro-China.
7/ This is clearly being driven by Donald Trump and his policies, especially tariffs. In 82% of countries, more people view him negatively (57% on average) than positively (27%). This is worse than Putin (32% positive, 49% negative) and Xi (32% positive, 32% negative).
8/ In a striking contrast to the other two leaders, Trump is severely unpopular in both democratic and authoritarian countries, and in every part of the world except sub-Saharan Africa. Putin and especially Xi are popular in authoritarian countries, particularly in Africa. /end
Source:
niradata.com/dpi
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