According to a recent survey, the G7 group of industrialized nations’ citizens have the least faith in their governments than those in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Only 31% of adult respondents in the US said they would have confidence in their government in 2022 when asked, compared to 69% who said they would not, according to a poll conducted and released on Monday by the Washington, DC-based analytics and advisory firm Gallup.
The UK came in second to the US in the survey, with only 33% of British adults expressing confidence in their government and 64% believing otherwise.
Over the past few years, there has been a sharp decline in public confidence in both the US and UK governments.
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The United States and Britain came out on top in the same Gallup study from 2006, with 56 and 49 percent of adults expressing faith in their respective governments.
The government confidence levels of the remaining G7 members, namely Germany, Japan, Italy, France, and Canada, increased between 2006 and 2022.
Top on the list for 2022 were Germany and Canada, with respective confidence levels in their governments of 61 and 51%.
There have been several low points in recent years for domestic confidence in the US government, including 31% in 2018 under former President Donald Trump and 30% in 2016 and 29% in 2013, both under Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama.
According to Gallup, 46 percent of US adults expressed faith in their government in 2020, but after President Joe Biden assumed office, the number fell to 40 percent in 2021 and again to 31 percent in 2022.
Similar to this, public trust in the British government plummeted sharply from 61 percent in 2021 to 38 percent in 2022.
