More Americans name the U.S. as the world's leading economic power than China % who say is the world's leading economic power
China’s economic growth has slowed in recent quarters, and the U.S. stock market logged one of its worst first quarters in history amid the spread of COVID-19. Even though unemployment surged in the U.S. throughout the March field period, marking the worst period for jobs since the 2008 recession, Americans’ sense that the U.S. is the world’s top economy has grown precipitously. Today, when asked to choose between the U.S., China, Japan and the countries of the European Union as the world’s leading economic power, 59% of Americans choose their own country, up from 50% last year. This is both the largest share to name the U.S. and the largest year-on-year increase since the question was first asked in 2008. Only three-in-ten name China, and this is largely unchanged over recent years.
More Americans name the U.S. as the world's leading  | economic power than China  | % who say  | is the world's leading economic power  | 100 %  | U.S.  | 59  | 54  | 51  | 50  | 49  | 48  | 46  | 46  | 44  | 43  | 41  | 41  | 41  | 40  | 40  | 39  | 38  | 38  | 36  | 35  | 34  | 33  | 33  | 32  | 30  | 26  | China  | 0  | 2008  | 2011  | 2014  | 2017  | 2020  | Note: Data for it Japan and "The countries of the European Union" and for the volunteered  | categories "Other" and "None/ There is no leading economic power not shown. Don 't know  | responses not shown.  | Source: Survey of U.S. Increasingly adults conducted March 3-29, 2020. Q14.  | "U. S. Views of China Increasingly Negative Amid Coronavirus Outbreak"  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 