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Global Leader Approval Ratings

Last Updated: Thursday, May 18, 2023 | By Peyton Shelburne

Morning Consult Political Intelligence is currently tracking the approval ratings of government leaders and country trajectories in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. This page will be updated weekly with the latest data for all 22 countries, offering real-time insight into the shifting political dynamics across the globe.

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Current Approval Ratings

The latest approval ratings are based on data collected from May 10-16, 2023. Approval ratings are based on a seven-day moving average of adult residents in each country, with sample sizes varying by country.

 

Approve
Don't know/No opinion
Disapprove
Narendra Modi (India)
NET +61
78%
4%
17%
NET +61
Alain Berset (Switzerland)
NET +36
62%
11%
27%
NET +36
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico)
NET +28
62%
3%
35%
NET +28
Anthony Albanese (Australia)
NET +18
53%
12%
35%
NET +18
Giorgia Meloni (Italy)
NET +4
49%
5%
46%
NET +4
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil)
NET +3
49%
6%
45%
NET +3
Joe Biden (United States)
NET -9
42%
8%
51%
NET -9
Alexander De Croo (Belgium)
NET -11
38%
13%
49%
NET -11
Justin Trudeau (Canada)
NET -14
39%
7%
53%
NET -14
Pedro Sánchez (Spain)
NET -18
39%
5%
57%
NET -18
Leo Varadkar (Ireland)
NET -19
34%
13%
53%
NET -19
Ulf Kristersson (Sweden)
NET -19
34%
13%
53%
NET -19
Rishi Sunak (United Kingdom)
NET -21
33%
12%
54%
NET -21
Fumio Kishida (Japan)
NET -23
31%
15%
54%
NET -23
Olaf Scholz (Germany)
NET -24
34%
8%
58%
NET -24
Karl Nehammer (Austria)
NET -27
33%
7%
60%
NET -27
Mateusz Morawiecki (Poland)
NET -34
29%
8%
63%
NET -34
Jonas Gahr Støre (Norway)
NET -35
30%
6%
64%
NET -35
Mark Rutte (Netherlands)
NET -43
24%
8%
68%
NET -43
Emmanuel Macron (France)
NET -45
25%
5%
70%
NET -45
Yoon Seok-youl
NET -48
22%
7%
70%
NET -48
Petr Fiala (Czech Republic)
NET -50
23%
5%
73%
NET -50
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Leader Approval Over Time

Use the dropdown menu to select a leader and view how their approval has shifted over time. Historical data is available from the beginning of when Morning Consult started tracking each leader.

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Perceptions of Country Trajectories

Use the dropdown menu to see how adults in each country view their country’s trajectory. Respondents were asked whether they would say things in their country are going in the right direction or have gone off on the wrong track. Historical data is available from the beginning of when Morning Consult started tracking each country.

Country trajectories are based on a seven-day moving average of adult residents in each country, with sample sizes varying by country.

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Methodology

Political Intelligence is a proprietary platform of Morning Consult and provides real-time polling data on political elections, elected officials and voting issues. Morning Consult conducts more than 20,000 global interviews daily.

The global leader and country trajectory data is based on a seven-day moving average of all adults in a given country, with a margin of error of between +/- 1-4%. In the United States, the average sample size is around 45,000. In the other countries, the sample size ranges from roughly 500-5,000. 

All interviews are conducted online among nationally representative samples of adults. In India, the sample is representative of the literate population.

Surveys are weighted in each country by age, gender, region and, in certain countries, education breakdowns based on official government sources. In the United States, surveys are also weighted by race and ethnicity. Respondents complete these surveys in languages appropriate for their countries.

Professional translation companies in each country conduct the translation and localization for each survey.

As of June 27, 2022, Morning Consult began tracking the approval rating of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the head of Poland’s government. Prior to that date, Morning Consult had been tracking President Andrzej Duda.

Due to a temporary, isolated tracking error, March 10-15, 2023, approval data for Petr Fiala, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, is unavailable.

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