International Issues

The United Nations is broadly credited with promoting peace and human rights as younger adults are more supportive of cooperation with other countries.

In several countries, favorable views of the U.S. are at their lowest point since the Center began polling on this topic two decades ago.

A median of 80% across 10 countries now say their country’s economy is faring badly, compared with a median of 72% who said this in 2008-2009.

The spread of infectious diseases is the top concern in the U.S., UK, Japan and South Korea as global economic concerns grow.

Assessments of national economies have seen swift downturns in many countries, and few see improvements anytime soon.

The pandemic has had a divisive effect on a sense of national unity in many of the countries surveyed: A median of 46% feel more national unity now than before the coronavirus outbreak, while 48% think divisions have grown.

Americans are now more likely to expect foreign election interference than they were in October 2018, when 67% expected it.

People in many countries support foreign companies building factories in their own nation. But fewer support foreign firms buying domestic ones.

Republicans have long held more unfavorable views of China than Democrats, but such views have climbed among both parties over the past year.

Unfavorable views of China reach new historic high, and a majority supports taking a tougher stand on human rights.