As this year’s G20 summit begins in Russia, just 37% of people in participating nations think their country’s economic situation will improve in next year.
In 15 of 22 nations surveyed in a Pew Research study, pluralities or majorities of these publics believe that China either will replace or already has replaced the United States as the world’s leading superpower.
Only four-in-ten Venezuelans, who will go to the polls in a key election this Sunday, told the most recent Global Attitudes Survey that they “like American ideas about democracy,” a sharp decline from the 67% who said so in 2002.