U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump
More than half of adults in 19 of 24 countries surveyed lack confidence in Trump’s leadership on the world stage.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
More than half of adults in 19 of 24 countries surveyed lack confidence in Trump’s leadership on the world stage.
Religion in a country tends to decline in three transitional stages that unfold across generations, a new paper using Center data proposes.
Most Americans say China’s global influence is growing stronger. Still, they tend to see the U.S. as the world’s top economic and military power.
In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have had especially large losses.
The religiously unaffiliated population is the world’s third-largest religious category and grew the second-fastest between 2010 and 2020.
Twenty-five years after the first nationally recognized same-sex marriages, nearly 40 places now allow them. But their prevalence varies, as do public attitudes.
Read how demographic factors – age composition, life expectancy and fertility rates – and religious switching changed the global religious landscape.
In nearly all the countries we surveyed, supporters of the governing party view their economy more positively than nonsupporters.
Today, 35% of Americans say using the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 was justified, while 31% say it was not justified. A third say they are not sure.
Read how Pew Research Center revised our estimates to reflect methodological advances, incorporate newly available data, and allow comparison across measures in this report.
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