The attitude towards the United States in the world has notably deteriorated in recent years. According to surveys, on average, fifty-seven percent of respondents in thirty-six countries around the world have a negative view of the US. This is particularly pronounced in some states, where the level of disapproval has reached eighty percent and above. Below are the countries with the most pronounced negative perception of America.

Turkey and the Middle East

Turkey leads the list of countries with the most negative attitude towards the US. According to data from the Pew Research Center, about eighty percent of Turkish respondents said they have a negative perception of the United States. A similar level of disapproval was recorded on the West Bank of the Jordan River and in East Jerusalem, where eighty percent of those surveyed have an adversarial view of the US. This is due to the long history of political tensions and the perception of American policy in the Middle East as unfair.

Australia and Europe: disillusionment among allies

Especially notable is the sharp decline in sympathy for the US among traditional allies. Australia demonstrates one of the highest levels of disapproval among developed countries: seventy-six percent of Australians have a negative view of the US. This is higher than in the UK, Canada, Japan, Spain, and France. Only Sweden, Malaysia, Pakistan, Turkey, and the West Bank of the Jordan River showed higher anti-American sentiments.

Sweden leads in Europe, where only nineteen percent of the population has a positive view of the US. Germany and the Netherlands also show a sharp decline: the rating of the US as a reliable partner has fallen by more than forty percentage points in these countries. Denmark stands out from the rest: eighty-four percent of Danes have a negative view of the US. For comparison, in November 2025, this figure was seventy percent, and in 2023, only twenty-six percent of Danes considered the US an ally or a friendly country.

Canada and Mexico: neighbors with the worst relations

Among the closest neighbors of the US, the situation is also extremely tense. In Canada, eighty-three percent of respondents believed the US to be a reliable partner in 2022, but by 2026, this figure had plummeted to thirty-five percent. Mexico demonstrates one of the highest levels of distrust: ninety-one percent of Mexicans do not trust the American government on issues of global economics and international conflicts.

Overall trend

Surveys show that the negative perception of the US is no longer a reaction to individual political decisions. More often than not, there is a fundamental distrust of the predictability and reliability of Washington as a partner. Even in such countries as Japan, where seventy-six percent considered the US reliable in 2022, by 2026, this figure had fallen to fifty-nine percent. World public opinion is increasingly perceiving the US not as a guarantor of stability, but as one of several centers of power that acts increasingly unilaterally.

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