Americans’ faith of their leaders has fallen to the lowest level of any major Western power over the past decade and a half, a latest study has found.
According to a Gallup poll released on Monday, just 31% of US respondents said that they had confidence of their national government, while 69% he said no.
Of the Group of Seven residents, the poll found that Germans (61%) believed of their national government the most, followed by Canadians (51%), French (46%), Japanese (43%), Italians (41%). %) and British (33%).
Trust in the US and UK governments has plummeted since 2006, when Gallup first measured the metric. At the time, the US led the G7 and 56% of Americans said they trusted Washington. The UK (49%) had the second highest level of trust, followed by Canada (44%), Japan (35%), Germany and France (each 32%) and Italy (24%).
Political turmoil has shaken each the US and the UK in recent times. The UK faced economic disputes over the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union, while the US fell into deep and bitter internal divisions over various social and cultural issues.
The outcomes of Monday’s Gallup poll, together with other company findings from last week that detected a decline in national pride.
Just 39% of adults said they were “extremely proud” to be American, a slight increase from last 12 months’s record low of 38%. According to for the annual survey.
According to the poll, only 29% of Americans said they were “very proud” of being from the United States, while 22% were “moderately proud”, 7% “just somewhat proud” and 4% weren’t proud in any respect.
National pride, defined as Americans who were “extremely” or “very” proud of it, fluctuated between 87% and 91% between 2001 and 2004 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but has experienced a pointy decline in the past 20 years.
America celebrated its 247th birthday on Tuesday.