You can now track U.S. leadership approval ratings, a key measure of how the image of the U.S. is faring abroad, across countries and over time in one place on Gallup.com. Our just-launched "Global Views of U.S. Leadership" interactive allows you to explore U.S. leadership approval ratings from 2008 and 2009 by country and displays full results from 2010 (approve, disapprove, and don't know/refused).
Gallup tracks approval of U.S. leadership in more than 150 countries and additional 2010 approval data will be published to the interactive throughout the year as soon as it becomes available.
Global views of U.S. leadership shifted significantly -- in a positive direction -- in 2009, during the Obama administration's first year in office. And now, in 2010, Gallup's continuous global tracking finds public opinion on the move again, but it is not headed in one clear direction.
Global views of U.S. leadership shifted significantly -- in a positive direction -- in 2009, during the Obama administration's first year in office. And now, in 2010, Gallup's continuous global tracking finds public opinion on the move again, but it is not headed in one clear direction.
Gallup is out today with a new analysis of views on U.S. leadership in Asia based on just-released 2010 data. Among the 18 Asian countries surveyed, Singaporeans are the most approving, at 77%, and Pakistanis are the least, at 18%.
As Gallup's Cynthia English and Rajesh Srinivasan point out, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only Asian countries surveyed where majorities disapprove of U.S. leadership. The authors also highlight changes in approval in 2010 versus 2008, revealing substantial increases in Australia and New Zealand.
However, U.S. leadership approval is down in four Arab countries -- Egypt, Algeria, Mauritania, and Lebanon -- so far in 2010, compared with 2009, as Gallup's Dalia Mogahed reported earlier this year.
Gallup will publish 2010 U.S. leadership approval findings from Africa later this week. To be notified of that article and to receive future articles on this topic delivered directly to you as soon as they publish, sign up for our U.S. Leadership Approval e-mail alerts or RSS feed.