What do British people think about sanctions?
Force axis · 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
No published British reading yet. DataRadio holds 74 British answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 26 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.
Where the United Kingdom sits on force
What is measured about the United Kingdom on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.
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Trade openness
World Bank national accounts · 2025
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62.5% |
somewhat below the middle
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Foreign direct investment
IMF Balance of Payments · 2025
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1.9% |
close to the middle
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Military spending
SIPRI · 2024
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2.3% |
somewhat above the middle
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Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.
The questions that bear on sanctions
Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.
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A · Cutting off trade is wrong when it makes ordinary people go hungry.
B · Cutting off trade is a fair tool, even when ordinary people suffer.
World, unweighted: 45% A ·
23% neither ·
32% B · n = 3872
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🇬🇧 n=74 of 100 |
A national figure appears only once that nation clears 100 responses on the question. The world column is a raw count of every answer received and is not post-stratified — it is shown because withholding it would say less, not more.
Asked another way
The same question, as people put it.
- The united kingdom public opinion on sanctions
- Sanctions poll the united kingdom
- What do british people think about sanctions
- What percentage of british people support sanctions
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.