PM Modi beats Biden, Sunak to retain ‘most popular world leader’ tag

Narendra Modi, World's most popular leader
File image of Narendra Modi
Narendra Modi, World's most popular leader
File image of Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again emerged as the world’s’most popular’ leader, surpassing leaders such as his US colleague Joe Biden. In a poll published by ‘Morning Consult,’ a global decision intelligence company that works to map contemporary leaders’ decisions, PM Modi placed first with a 76% approval rating, while Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took second place.

Here are the top 10 most popular world leaders:

Narendra Modi (India) 76%
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico) 61%
Anthony Albanese (Australia) 55%
Alain Berset (Switzerland) 53%
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) 49%
Giorgia Meloni (Italy) 49%
Joe Biden (United States) 41%
Alexander De Croo (Belgium) 39%
Justin Trudeau (Canada) 39%
Pedro Sánchez (Spain) 38%

“The most recent approval ratings are based on data collected between March 22 and March 28, 2023.” The website stated that “approval ratings are based on a seven-day moving average of adult residents in each country, with sample sizes varying by country.” PM Modi retained his top spot in the organisation’s most recent poll, which was released on March 5.

PM Modi kept his top place with an approval rating of 78% in the organisation’s most recent poll, which was released on March 5.

Morning Consult, which specializes in giving real-time survey data on political campaigns, elected officials, and voting problems, published the list on Sunday. According to the company, it conducts approximately 20,000 conversations worldwide daily.

“The world leader and nation trajectory statistics are based on a seven-day moving average of all individuals in a particular country…The typical group size in the United States is around 45,000 people. The sample number in the other nations varies from 500 to 5,000,” it said.

These online polls are conducted with representative samples of people in a nation. “The sample is representative of the literate population in India,” Morning Consult stated.

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