Tone of U.S. online articles about global leaders 2023

In the United States, the average tone of the online articles mentioning the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the most positive compared to other presented global leaders, at -0.71 in 2023. Modi's score has improved significantly in recent years. To compare, the score of the U.S. President Joe Biden was measured at -2.44. In 2022, the lowest scores were recorded for Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2023, Donald Trump had the same score as Zelenskyy.

Average sentiment score of online news articles mentioning selected global political leaders in the United States from 2017 to 2023

Characteristic	Angela Merkel	Boris Johnson	Donald Trump	Jacinda Ardern	Joe Biden	Narendra Modi	Olaf Scholz	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Rishi Sunak	Ursula von der Leyen	Vladimir Putin	Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Xi Jinping
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Release date

March 2024

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2017 to 2023

Supplementary notes

The following search terms have been used: "Angela Merkel," "Biden," "Boris Johnson," "Donald Trump," "Erdogan," "Jacinda Ardern," "Narendra Modi," "Olaf Scholz," "Putin," "Rishi Sunak," "von der Leyen," "Xi Jinping" and "Zelensky / Zelenskyy / Selenskyj / Zelenskiy."

The mentions refer to the GDELT database which translates articles in 65 languages into English. The figures represent the average sentiment score of all articles GDELT monitored during that time interval which include at least once the search term. The score is calculated by giving words in an article an sentiment score based on its connotation (from -100 (extremely negative) to +100 (extremely positive) and taking the mean of these words per article. The overall score is the average score of all articles.
The tone is weighted.

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