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I want to know how international sentiment towards the US has changed over the last two decades.

Is there a tracker of that sentiment that is worldwide (covering different regions in the world), long-term (over at least the last 10 years) and stable (faithfully reflects the true sentiment allowing to compare the development over the whole time)?

I only found publications for certain time points 2021 or 2024 but it's not clear if they could simply be glued together as sort of time series.

Ideally, I would like to contrast this with similar trackers for sentiment towards other big countries like China, India, Russia, EU, ...

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Are there long-term, world-wide, stable trackers of sentiment towards the US?

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Yes, if by long term you mean decades. The problem is many of them run annually or semiannually and President Trump who along with his policies are likely to be the biggest factor in any sentiment has only been in office for 92 days. (from Jan 20, 2025 – Present (April 22, 2025). Here is a short list. Check out YouGov, Globalism Project, but that has only been around for 6 years or so.

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    I guess the idea here is: wait till you see the new batch of polls, performed after Trump 2.0's arrival. That should call for some major popcorn. Commented Apr 23, 2025 at 0:50
  • Thank you for the links. If I understand it correctly there isn't an assembled dataset that shows a single time series for sentiment towards US over time by origin, at least I could not fine one. One would need to assemble that manually and would need to pay attention to possibly different polling conditions. Which of these polls do you think has the most and most reliable data points for this sentiment? Commented Apr 23, 2025 at 6:42
  • If you want to track the /change/ in sentiment, it may make sense to do an aggregate/average - something akin to what is done for many political polls. The individual surveys may have different questions, biases etc - but the change should be less prone to those. Commented Apr 23, 2025 at 15:02

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