Global views on economy correlated - at least somewhat with performance % saying the current economic situation in their country is *good" compared with
We compared the public assessment of national economic conditions in 38 countries surveyed this spring with two common measures of economic health: real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and unemployment. Our analysis found a modest relationship at best between those indicators and how people rated their nation’s economy, with plenty of outliers in both directions.
Global views on economy correlated - at least somewhat with performance  | % saying the current economic situation in their country is *good" compared with  | 100  | 100  | Vietnam  | Netherlands  | Vietnam  | 75  | 75  | U.S.  | U.S  | 50  | 50  | South Africa  | Mexico  | 25  | 25  | Venezuela  | South Korea  | Greece  | South Korea  | 25  | 25  | 10  | 20  | 30  | 50  | % change in real GOP per capita 2011-2016  | unemployment rate 2016  | Note: Includes 38 countries surveyed in April 201 7 Per capita GDP measured in constant prices in each country's national  | currency. The fitted lines show surveyed the relationship between public sentiment in a country about its economy and growth in real  | GDP Sources: per capita (left) or the unemployment rate (right) in that country, estimated va ordinary least estimates), squares regression. growth  | Sources: Spring 2017 Global Attitudes Survey, World Bank (unemployment rates, modeled ILO estimates), International regression.  | Monetary Fund (GDP per capita), Pew Research Center ana lysis  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 