New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): India continues to command robust goodwill throughout a lot of the world, with a median of 45 per cent of adults throughout 36 international locations holding a beneficial view of the nation, in line with the Pew Research Centre’s Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey.
The strongest sentiment comes from neighbouring Sri Lanka, the place 79 per cent of these surveyed view India favourably.
The survey, performed from February 8 to May 13, 2026, exhibits that India’s worldwide picture stays broadly optimistic, with beneficial views edging out unfavourable ones by 4 proportion factors globally. Pew surveyed adults throughout 36 international locations for the evaluation.
According to the survey issued on Thursday, Sri Lanka stands out as India’s strongest supporter among the many international locations surveyed, with 79 per cent expressing a beneficial opinion of India.
The discovering highlights the depth of people-to-people, cultural, financial and strategic ties between the 2 neighbouring international locations.
The exceptionally excessive score locations Sri Lanka on the high of the international locations surveyed for optimistic sentiment in direction of India, reinforcing the rising significance of India’s function within the Indian Ocean area.
India’s beneficial picture additionally extends nicely past its instant neighbourhood.
Around seven-in-ten adults in Kenya and the United Kingdom view India positively, whereas majorities in international locations together with Germany, Israel, Italy, Sweden, Japan and Thailand additionally categorical beneficial opinions.
The findings level to a broad worldwide recognition of India’s rising presence and significance throughout financial, diplomatic and strategic spheres.
Across the 36 international locations surveyed, a median of 45 per cent expressed a beneficial view of India, in contrast with 41 per cent who held an unfavourable opinion.
The figures point out that regardless of variations in perceptions throughout areas, India retains a slight total benefit in international public sentiment.
Europe emerges as a very optimistic area for India, with beneficial views outweighing detrimental ones in a number of international locations. In components of Latin America, in the meantime, opinions are much less clearly outlined, with important shares of respondents selecting to not categorical a view.
The survey additionally reveals a putting divergence in perceptions of India amongst its neighbours.
While Sri Lanka data an amazing 79 per cent beneficial score, sentiment is dramatically totally different in Pakistan, the place solely 7 per cent of respondents view India favourably.
Turkey additionally data a comparatively low beneficial score for India at 15 per cent, whereas views within the West Bank and East Jerusalem are equally detrimental, with simply 18 per cent expressing a beneficial opinion.
Beyond South Asia, India’s optimistic picture is obvious throughout a number of main economies and influential international locations.
The United Kingdom data 71 per cent beneficial views, whereas Germany stands at 63 per cent and Israel at 60 per cent. Japan and a number of other European international locations additionally report majority-positive assessments.
These figures come as India’s diplomatic and financial engagement with international locations throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Indo-Pacific has expanded considerably.
The survey’s findings due to this fact recommend that India’s worldwide picture will not be restricted to a specific area or bloc however is more and more unfold throughout various components of the world.
The findings come in opposition to the backdrop of India’s increasing function in international affairs, together with its rising financial weight, strategic partnerships and more and more distinguished function within the Indo-Pacific.
Pew’s 2026 worldwide survey coated 36 international locations and interviewed greater than 42,000 individuals.
The total image rising from the survey is one in every of a rustic whose international repute stays extra beneficial than unfavourable, whereas its strongest goodwill is especially seen in Sri Lanka and a number of other main Western and Asian economies.
With 79 per cent of Sri Lankans expressing a beneficial view of India and a forty five per cent international median favourability, the findings underline India’s rising worldwide enchantment. (ANI)