Just over a third of Americans, 37%, say in a Gallup survey released Monday that President Joe Biden is respected by world leaders.
Fifty-eight percent said he is not respected, and 5% said they have no opinion.
Broken down by political affiliation, 74% of Democrats said Biden is respected, as did 3% of Republicans and 34% of independents.
The findings of the poll, conducted from Feb. 1-20, mirror those from a similar survey one year ago, when 37% said in February 2023 that Biden was respected by world leaders.
By comparison, 58% in February 2021 said that Biden was respected. The following year, just 40% of respondents agreed.
While the latest polling on Biden’s standing on the world stage marks the lowest of his presidency, it equals former President Donald Trump’s highest performance throughout his four years in office.
By February 2020, one month before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the U.S. economy, 37% said Trump was respected by world leaders – the highest level of his presidency.
In the most recent survey, fewer Americans — 42% — say the United States rates very or somewhat favorably in the eyes of the world, the lowest since February 2017. In the first three years of Biden’s presidency, the share of those who said the U.S. rated favorably stayed about even at 49%, 48% and 49%, respectively.
Additionally, in the first three years of Biden’s presidency, the share of Americans who said that they were satisfied with the U.S. position in the world remained steady at 37%. In February 2024, that level dropped to 33%.
This slight souring on the U.S.’s role on the global stage comes as some Democrats have expressed dissatisfaction with the U.S.’s support for Israel in the war in Gaza.
Generally, the way respondents answer questions about the U.S. role on the global stage reflects a significant partisan divide, with Republicans rating their party’s presidents more favorably than Democrats, and vice versa.
During the first four years of Biden’s presidency, an average of 56% of Democrats said they were satisfied with the U.S. position in the world, compared to 12% of Republicans and 37% of independents. Similarly, an average of 76% of Democrats said Biden was respected by world leaders, compared with only 9% of Republicans, and 42% of Independents.
Trump, on the other hand, had reverse numbers for his presidency. On average, 71% of Republicans were satisfied with the U.S. position in the world, compared to only 18% of Democrats and 18% of independents. On average, 65% of Republicans said Trump was respected by world leaders, compared to only 5% of Democrats and 25% of independents.
The new survey, conducted through telephone interviews with 1,016 U.S. adults, has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
