Prime Minister Narendra Modi topped the list of world leaders with the highest approval ratings of 70%, ahead of Mexican President Manuel Lopez Obrador and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
According to the survey conducted by The Morning Consult, which was updated on September 2, PM Modi’s approval has gone up from 66% in June to 70% now. His approval ratings were highest in May 2020 at 84%, right after the outbreak of the first wave of the Covid pandemic.
Furthermore, Modi’s disapproval rating, which is the count of people disapproving of his governance, has also dropped by 25%. His disapproval ratings were highest in May 2021 when the 2nd Covid wave was at its peak.
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Now that the Covid situation in the country is steadily improving even amid the threat of a third wave of the pandemic, PM Modi's disapproval rating has come down.
The list also includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President Joe Biden, Australian PM Scott Morrison, Canada PM Trudeau, UK Prime Minister Boris Jonson, Brazilian President Jaire Bolsonaro, etc.
Here is the entire rating of the global leaders:
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Narendra Modi: 70%
López Obrador: 64%
Mario Draghi: 63%
Angela Merkel: 52%
Joe Biden: 48%
Scott Morrison: 48%
Justin Trudeau: 45%
Boris Johnson: 41%
Jair Bolsonaro: 39%
Moon Jae-In: 38%
Pedro Sánchez: 35%
Emanuel Macron: 34%
Yoshihide Suga: 25%
The Morning Consult calculates the approval and disapproval rating“based on a seven-day moving average of all adults in a given country with a margin of error of between +/- 1-3%”. Online interviews of approximately, 2,126 adults were sampled for the data on India.
