---
title: "4. Joe Biden’s approval ratings"
description: "Today, 35% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance, while 62% disapprove. These views have remained largely stable over the last year."
date: "2024-04-24"
authors:
  - name: "Reem Nadeem"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/24/joe-bidens-approval-ratings/"
categories:
  - "Donald Trump"
  - "Election 2024"
  - "Joe Biden"
  - "Partisanship & Issues"
  - "Presidential Approval"
  - "Voter Demographics"
  - "Voter Participation"
datasets:
  - name: "American Trends Panel Wave 146"
    url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/dataset/american-trends-panel-wave-146/"
---

# 4. Joe Biden’s approval ratings

Americans’ ratings of Joe Biden’s job performance remain more negative than positive and have been largely stable over the last year: Today, 35% of Americans approve of his performance, while 62% disapprove.

[![Chart shows Biden’s job approval rating remains low](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/04/PP_2024.4.24_biden-trump_4-01.png?w=310)](https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=142048)

#### **Trends among Democrats**

About two-thirds of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (65%) approve of Biden’s job performance. This is a modest improvement from January, when 61% of Democrats approved of his job performance. However, Biden’s job rating among Democrats remains lower than it was in the first year of his administration.

#### **Trends among Republicans**

Just 6% of Republicans and Republican leaners approve of Biden’s job performance. This is essentially unchanged over the last several years.

#### **Biden’s job approval among demographic groups**

While Biden’s job rating continues to differ by race and ethnicity, education, and age, majorities in most groups disapprove of his performance.

##### *Race and ethnicity*

[![Chart shows Biden’s job approval ratings differ by education, age](https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/04/PP_2024.4.24_biden-trump_4-02.png?w=420)](https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=142049)

Majorities of White (66%), Hispanic (63%) and Asian (57%) Americans disapprove of Biden’s job performance.

Black adults’ ratings are more positive than negative: A narrow majority of Black adults (55%) say they approve of Biden’s job performance, a modest improvement from earlier this year. (In January, 48% of Black adults approved of Biden.)

##### *Age*

Younger adults’ evaluations of Biden continue to be more negative than older adults’ ratings. About four-in-ten Americans ages 50 and older (39%) approve of his job performance, compared with 34% of those 30 to 49 and 28% of adults under 30.

##### *Education*

Majorities of adults who have a four-year college degree (61%), some college experience (66%), or a high school diploma or less education (66%) say they disapprove of Biden’s job performance. Ratings among those with a postgraduate degree are more evenly divided (52% approve, 47% disapprove).

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