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Poll: Global views of USA improve


After years of becoming progressively more negative, public views of the United States have begun to improve, according to a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service poll across 34 countries.

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While views of US influence in the world are still predominantly negative, they have improved in 11 of the 23 countries the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ polled a year ago, while worsening in just three countries.

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The average percentage saying that the US is having a positive influence has increased from 31% a year ago to 35% today while the view that it is having a negative influence has declined from 52% to 47%.

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Looking just at the countries that have been polled in each of the last four years, positive views of the US eroded from 2005 (38% on average), to 2006 (32%), and to 2007 (28%); recovering for the first time this year to 32%.

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People were asked to rate Brazil, Britain, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the USA and the European Union, as having a mainly positive or negative influence in the world.

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As was the case a year ago, Iran and Israel receive the most negative ratings.

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While negative views of Israel have eased over the last year from 57 to 52%, negative views of Iran's influence have held steady at 54% making it the most negatively rated of the countries tested. Pakistan follows Israel as the third most poorly rated country.

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Similar to last year, Japan is among the most positively rated countries. However, it comes a close second to Germany which is included in the ratings for the first time. The European Union comes third.

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The country with the greatest improvement is Russia. Positive views of Russia have risen on average from 29% to 37% and negative views have fallen from 40% to 33%. In 12 countries, the view of Russia grew more positive.

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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service poll has been tracking opinions about country influence in the world since 2005.

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These latest results are based on 17,457 in-home or telephone interviews conducted across a total of 34 countries (including the 23 tracking countries) by the international polling firm GlobeScan together with the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland.

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GlobeScan coordinated fieldwork between 31 October 2007 and 25 January 2008.

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Steven Kull, Director of PIPA, comments: "It may be that as the US approaches a new presidential election, views of the US are being mitigated by hope that a new administration will move away from the foreign policies that have been so unpopular in the world."

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GlobeScan President Doug Miller added: "The poll suggests that Iran continues to pay a price for its nuclear stand-off with the United Nations. World opinion continues to see it as the country having the most negative influence."

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Notes to Editors

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More detailed findings from the poll and background are available in the PDF file on the right-hand side of this page.

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Category: World Service
Date: 02.04.2008
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