Meanwhile, China kept improving its global standing, overtaking the U.S. for the first time and recording mostly positive perceptions in all regions except Europe.
Russia, the reputation of which tanked in the wake of President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, is still (slightly) more unpopular than the U.S. — though its image is also improving.
The survey showed he’s less popular worldwide than his Russian and Chinese counterparts, Putin and Xi Jinping.
Israel emerged as the country with the worst global reputation of those included in the poll, especially in the Middle East and South Asia.
The data used in this story came from an online survey conducted by Nira Data and the Alliance of Democracies between April 9-23, 2025.
The sample was 111,273 drawn across 100 countries, with an average sample size of around 1,100 respondents per country.
Nationally representative results were calculated based on the official distribution of age and gender for each country’s population. »
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