According to US-based global leader approval tracker Morning Consult, Prime Minister Narendra Modi bags the highest approval rating for most popular world leader.
About the approval:
The PM bagged the position with an approval rating of 71 per cent of India’s adult population. Among the 13 leaders surveyed by the research firm, PM Modi tops the list with 71 per cent, followed by Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador (66 per cent), Italy’s Mario Draghi (60 percent) and Japan’s Fumio Kishida (48 per cent).
PM Narendra Modi also happens to have the lowest disapproval rating at 21 per cent.
US President Joe Biden and Canada’s Justin Trudeau got an approval rating of 43 per cent each and were placed at sixth and seventh spot, respectively. British PM Boris Johnson, embroiled in the ‘partygate’ scandal, ranked the lowest among the leaders surveyed with 26 percent approval rating.
In the past two years, PM Narendra Modi’s approval rating touched a high of 84 percent on May 2, 2020. His approval rating was at the lowest on May 7, 2021 with 63 per cent when the second wave of coronavirus was at its peak in the country.
Joe Biden’s approval rating falls to lowest:
At 43 per cent, US President Joe Biden’s approval rating has fallen to its lowest during his presidency. After holding above 50 per cent in his first months in office, Biden’s popularity began dropping in mid-August last year due to a surge in Covid-19 deaths and the hasty withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
About the survey:
Morning Consult relies on real-time polling data on political elections, elected officials and voting issues to conduct surveys. The research firm conducts more than 20,000 global interviews daily with the adult population.
The global leader and country trajectory data is based on a seven-day moving average of all adults in a given country, with a margin of error of between +/- 1-3 per cent. While the average sample size in the US is 45,000, it ranges from roughly 3,000-5,000 in other countries.
Surveys are weighted in each country by age, gender, region and, in certain countries, education breakdowns based on official government sources. In India, the sample is representative of the literate population.
About Narendra Modi:
Narendra Modi is an Indian politician and Prime Minister of India since 2014. The BJP swept to victory in the recent 2019 Lok Sabha Elections – held over 39 days in April and May – and increased its majority in the lower house of Parliament. The BJP won 303 out of 542 Lok Sabha constituencies, further increasing its substantial majority and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 353 seats.
In 2014 General Elections, the NDA had won 336 out of 543 parliamentary constituencies. His elevation for the top post exposed internal difference in the party. Riding on his wave, the BJP decimated the Congress-led UPA in 2014
Before taking over as the PM, Modi was the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat for three consecutive terms (2001 to 2014). As the CM, he is credited with boosting Gujarat’s economy and making it a lucrative investment destination for industrialists.
Modi is a Hindu nationalist and member of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Aiming to transform India into a global manufacturing hub, Modi took the initiative of launching the ‘ Make in India’ campaign on September 2014.
Ever since he has taken over the office, Modi has tried to raise foreign direct investment in the Indian economy, increased the budget on infrastructure and reduced spending on healthcare and social welfare programmes. He also initiated a national-level sanitation campaign and abolished environmental and labour laws.
