What do American people think about foreign influence?
Sovereignty axis · 🇺🇸 the United States · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
30% of American respondents take the position “If a region votes to break away, it should be allowed to.”, against 44% for “Borders should stay as they are, even if a region wants to break away.”, with 26% choosing neither. n = 104, margin of error ±9.7, weighted to the United States's adult population.
Where the United States sits on sovereignty
What is measured about the United States 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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Foreign direct investment
IMF Balance of Payments · 2025
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1.3% |
somewhat below the middle
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Trade openness
World Bank national accounts · 2024
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25.0% |
among the lowest in the world
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Born in another country
UN DESA migrant stock · 2024
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15.2% |
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 foreign influence
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 · Borders should stay as they are, even if a region wants to break away.
B · If a region votes to break away, it should be allowed to.
World, unweighted: 40% A ·
30% neither ·
30% B · n = 3901
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30% B 🇺🇸 n=104 |
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A · No country should meddle inside another, whatever is going on there.
B · What a country does to its own people can be the world's business.
World, unweighted: 53% A ·
22% neither ·
25% B · n = 3882
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51% B 🇺🇸 n=108 |
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 states public opinion on foreign influence
- Foreign influence poll the united states
- What do american people think about foreign influence
- What percentage of american people support foreign influence
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.