WASHINGTON: Although people in most G20 nations have a favourable view of India, according to a survey, but the country’s popularity has come down in most of the European countries in the last 15 years with many people saying they lacked confidence in Narendra Modi to do the right thing in world affairs.
The survey of over 30,000 people across 24 countries, conducted between February and May this year by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre, found that India’s popularity is waning in most European countries. In five European nations where past data is available – France, Spain, Germany, Poland and the UK – India’s favourable rating dropped 10 percentage points since 2008.
The largest drop was seen in France, where only 39% respondents held a favourable image of India in 2023 compared to 70% 15 years ago.
The survey also asked people in 12 of these countries about their view of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and 40% said they lacked confidence in him to do the right thing in world affairs, while 37% were confident that he would.
Just over half the respondents from the US viewed India favourably at 51%, with 44% holding the opposite view, the survey said. In the US, only 21% Americans held a positive view of Modi, compared to 37% saying they did not have confidence in him.
The survey comes less than two weeks before Modi is set to host the summit of the G20 nations in New Delhi.
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