What do American people think about sanctions?
Force axis · 🇺🇸 the United States · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
51% of American respondents take the position “Cutting off trade is a fair tool, even when ordinary people suffer.”, against 31% for “Cutting off trade is wrong when it makes ordinary people go hungry.”, with 19% choosing neither. n = 111, margin of error ±9.4, weighted to the United States's adult population.
Where the United States sits on force
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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Military spending
SIPRI · 2024
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3.4% |
higher than most countries
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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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51% B 🇺🇸 n=111 |
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 sanctions
- Sanctions poll the united states
- What do american people think about sanctions
- What percentage of american people support sanctions
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.