For the first time in roughly two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, both Canadians and Mexicans now view China significantly more positively than the U.S. In 🇨🇦: 🇨🇳 44% favorable 🇺🇸 33% favorable In 🇲🇽: 🇨🇳 59% favorable 🇺🇸 40% favorable

35% of Canadians say the United States is a reliable partner to their country, down from 83% in 2022. www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...

57 years ago today, the #Apollo11 astronauts landed on the moon. 🌕 Our 2023 survey found that 69% of Americans say it's essential for the U.S. to continue to be a world leader in space exploration. 🚀

Spain and Argentina are set to compete in the 2026 World Cup final. The two teams were among the top predicted winners in our March survey of U.S. adults. #WorldCup www.pewresearch.org/...

Way back in March, Americans saw Spain and Argentina as the favorites for the World Cup. (OK, OK, it was more like a five-way tie when you factor in the margin of error.) www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Even when views of the U.S. declined last year, it was still generally rated higher than China. That's no longer the case. In most of the countries we surveyed in this year, China is now seen more positively than the U.S.

In 31 out of 36 countries surveyed, less than half of people have confidence in Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs. In 26 of those places, 30% or less have confidence in him.

What happens when war breaks out in the middle of a survey? That's exactly what happened with our Spring 2026 @pewresearch.org Global Attitudes Survey. And in several countries, views of both the U.S. and the national economy weakened over the course of our fielding period.

Does the U.S. government respect the personal freedoms of the American people? #USA

NEW: Our new 36-country survey finds declining ratings for the U.S. amid rising concerns about its foreign policy and the health of its democracy. Overall, a 36-country median of 23% have confidence in Trump, compared to 76% who do not.

Satisfaction with the way democracy is working didn't change much from last year in most of our surveyed countries. But there were four exceptions: In South Korea and Japan, satisfaction skyrocketed after a year filled with significant political change. In the U.S. and Australia, views worsened.

In a March survey, we asked Americans how likely they are to follow the World Cup. Just 28% said they are at least somewhat likely to watch. Only 14% said they are very or extremely likely to follow the games.

"Polls give the public a voice in politics, business and other areas... If we stop polling people and just assume AI knows the answer, we risk misunderstanding what’s actually happening in the public." www.pewresearch.org?p=303740

Q&A: Do AI and bogus respondents threaten polling’s future?

Courtney Kennedy, vice president of methods and innovation, answers some common questions about the current polling landscape in the U.S.

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Two new posts from us at @pewresearch.org today (links in replies). First, it is generally the case that higher income countries are less likely to say their political system needs big changes. But the U.S. is an exception. This post shows how the U.S. both does and does not stand out on this.

The full dataset from Pew's 2025 Global Attitudes Survey is available for download! A great resource for anyone interested in public opinion that contains rich data from 25 countries. www.pewresearch.org/dataset/spri...

Majorities in both parties agree that Iran is not doing enough to avoid civilian casualties. But Democrats are three times more likely than Republicans to say the U.S. is not doing enough to avoid civilian casualties.

Republicans (47%) are much more likely than Democrats (5%) to say the U.S. military action against Iran will make the Iranian people better off. But within the GOP, there are big age divides. Republicans 65 and older are about twice as likely as those under 30 to say Iranians will be better off.

New from @pewresearch.org: About a third of Americans have confidence in Trump to make good decisions when it comes to policy toward Iran. That number has declined since he was a candidate for president in 2024, including by 18 points among Republicans.

"Concomitant with the emergent partisan gap [in trust in science] is a massive perceptual gap among Democrats, who perceive a partisan divide more than double its actual size. Democrats vastly underestimate Republicans’ trust in scientists" academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

Continuity and Change in Trust in Scientists in the United States: Demographic Stability and Partisan Polarization

Abstract. Americans’ trust in scientists has been stable and high, relative to other political and social institutions, for the last half century (Krause,

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The most religiously diverse countries 1 Singapore 2 Suriname 3 Taiwan 4 S Korea 9 Australia 10 France 11 Canada 12 UK 16 NZ 20 Germany 24 Japan 32 US 34 Nigeria 78 India 83 Brazil 126 China 160 Egypt 201 Yemen www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

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Religious Diversity Around the World www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Really excited to see our article examining trends in public confidence in scientists over the last five decades in print. Check it out here and let me know your thoughts:

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In the past, Republicans had more trust in scientists than Democrats. This is no longer the case. In POQ, Schulam et al. identify demographic changes in political parties as a source of polarized trust in the scientific community. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

An extremely fun post from Pew today: Our graphics team's favorite data visualizations of 2025! Including my personal favorite, a 'beeswarm plot' showing the partisan divide over trust in different news sources, with each dot representing a different news source. pewrsr.ch/4s5jncn

While there continues to be much attention paid to the growth of the religiously unaffiliated population in Europe and North America, two-thirds of the world’s 1.9 billion religious “nones” (67%) live in China.

2025 striking findings from @pewresearch.org! Highlights include: - Views of the U.S. are down, views of China up in many countries - More Americans say higher education is going in the wrong direction - Young men have grown more critical of sports betting Check it all out here: pewrsr.ch/3KJ56Rz

Striking findings from 2025

Here’s a look back at 2025 through 12 of our most striking research findings.

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In a new article out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, we find that members of demographic groups with lower trust in scientists increase their trust when presented with scientists who look like them. Not just on gender and race, but also rurality and class. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour

Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...

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New research from the #NetSI team + colleagues shows: groups with historically lower trust—women, Black people, rural and lower-income residents—trust scientists more when they share their identity. Greater representation across communities can boost trust in science. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour

Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...

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Americans aren’t following the news as closely as they were a decade ago. And that’s true for older and younger Americans and Republicans and Democrats alike. New today from Pew: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Americans are following the news less closely than they used to

In 2016, 51% of U.S. adults said they followed the news all or most of the time, but that share fell to 36% in 2025.

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Across 25 countries we surveyed earlier this year, trust in others varies widely. But it tends to be higher in high-income countries than in middle-income ones.

We've previously found that trusting others is associated with things like higher confidence in public school principals and greater life satisfaction. In a new post out today, we find that whether people trust others also relates to how they think about international affairs.

Generally speaking, would you say that most people can or can't be trusted? In our new post out today, we asked this question in 25 countries. 55% of Americans say that most people CAN be trusted. The U.S. is consistent with a wider trend of people in high-income countries being more trusting.