What do American people think about the United Nations?
Sovereignty axis · 🇺🇸 the United States · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.
27% of American respondents take the position “The UN veto gives too much power to too few countries.”, against 49% for “The UN veto matches real power, and keeps big states at the table.”, with 24% choosing neither. n = 117, margin of error ±9.2, 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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Military spending
SIPRI · 2024
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3.4% |
higher than most countries
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Income per person
World Bank / ICP · 2025
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$76,931 |
among the highest in the world
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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 the United Nations
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 · The UN veto matches real power, and keeps big states at the table.
B · The UN veto gives too much power to too few countries.
World, unweighted: 49% A ·
22% neither ·
29% B · n = 3903
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27% B 🇺🇸 n=117 |
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 the united nations
- The united nations poll the united states
- What do american people think about the united nations
- What percentage of american people support the united nations
Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.