What do American people think about global governance?
Sovereignty axis · 🇺🇸 the United States · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
34% of American respondents take the position “World courts should be able to overrule the leaders a country elects.”, against 46% for “No court outside our country should overrule the leaders we elect.”, with 20% choosing neither. n = 110, margin of error ±9.4, 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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Trade openness
World Bank national accounts · 2024
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25.0% |
among the lowest in the world
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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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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 global governance
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 · No court outside our country should overrule the leaders we elect.
B · World courts should be able to overrule the leaders a country elects.
World, unweighted: 54% A ·
18% neither ·
28% B · n = 3936
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34% B 🇺🇸 n=110 |
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A · A leader can only be put on trial by their own country.
B · Any leader can be put on trial by a world court.
World, unweighted: 50% A ·
21% neither ·
29% B · n = 1719
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🇺🇸 n=54 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 states public opinion on global governance
- Global governance poll the united states
- What do american people think about global governance
- What percentage of american people support global governance
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.