According to the list of 11 world leaders surveyed by Morning Consult, the Indian Prime Minister has the highest approval rating of 71 per cent
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has achieved it again. 'Morning Consult Political Intelligence', a US-based data intelligence company, has reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approval rating is the highest among world leaders.
According to the list of 11 world leaders surveyed by Morning Consult, the Indian Prime Minister has the highest approval rating of 71 per cent. In the list also appears the names of global leaders such as President Joe Biden and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the President of Mexico.
A distant second in approval ratings was the President of Mexico. He has an approval rating of 66 per cent. Third on that list was Mario Draghi, the Prime Minister of Italy, with an approval rating of 60 per cent. Biden had a modest approval rating of only 43 per cent comparatively.
According to the graph, Mr Modi’s approval rating was at its lowest in June 2020 at 63 per cent. “The latest approval rating is based on data collected from January 13 to 19, 2022. Approval ratings are based on a seven-day moving average or adult residents in each country, with sample sizes varying” by the demographic,” Morning Consult Political Intelligence says.
This is not the first time PM Modi was voted the most popular leader on the global stage. In May 2020 also he had topped the list with a staggeringly high 84 per cent popularity.
However, in May 2021, the approval rating dipped somewhat but in September 2021, PM Modi was again ranked the most approved global leader.
According to Morning Consult, they conduct more than 11,000 daily interviews globally about leadership approval. They also daily interview 4,000 registered voters in the US for the approval rating of the US president.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is at the bottom with 26 per cent, the survey revealed. Other leaders on the list are Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil President), Fumio Kishida (Japan Prime Minister), Emmanuel Macron (France President); Moon Jae-in (South Korean President), Scott Morrison (Australian Prime Minister); Pedro Sanchez (Spain PM); Olaf Scholz (German Chancellor) and Justin Trudeau (Canada PM).
