Public confidence in US, UK govts lowest among G7 states: Poll
A new survey has found that people in the United States and the United Kingdom have the lowest levels of confidence in their governments among the G7 group of industrialized nations.
According to the poll, conducted and released Monday by the Washington, DC-based Gallup analytics and advisory company, only 31 percent of adult participants in the US responded yes when asked if they had confidence in their government in 2022, compared to 69 percent who answered no.
The US was followed closely by the UK in the survey, with just 33 percent of British adults expressing confidence in their government and 64 percent believing otherwise.
The citizen confidence levels in the US and the UK administrations have declined sharply over the past years.
In the same Gallup research conducted in 2006, the United States and Britain topped the list with 56 and 49 percent of adults expressing faith in their governments, respectively.
However, the remaining G7 members – Germany, Japan, Italy, France and Canada – saw their government confidence levels improve between 2006 and 2022.
Germany and Canada were top on the 2022 list, with 61 and 51 percent saying they have confidence in their governments, respectively.
Domestic confidence in the US government has seen several lows in recent years, including 31 percent in 2018 under former President Donald Trump, as well as 30 percent in 2016 and 29 percent in 2013 both under Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama.
In 2020, 46 percent of US adults expressed faith in their government, but after President Joe Biden took office, the figure slipped to 40 percent in 2021 and again to 31 percent in 2022, according to Gallup.
Similarly, public confidence in the British government dropped dramatically from 61 percent in 2021 to 38 percent in 2022.
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