Here’s the poll from last year, for comparison sake:
Expected Israel to be lower. Probably should be.
While Israel is still rated favorably, the partisan divide on the Israeli-Palestinian issue has been growing, as seen in Pew’s recent poll:
Has anyone besides the maple syrup commune ever come first?
Yes. Here’s the historical data from Gallup:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1624/perceptions-foreign-countries.aspx
In the early years of the Iraq War, the UK was ahead of Canada, for example in 2005:
Canada
favorable 86%
unfavorable 10%
UK
favorable 91%
unfavorable 4%
The 2004 poll included Australia as well, and both Australia and the UK narrowly edged Canada in net favorability that year.
Poor Brazil and Pakistan. No longer important enough to be included this year.
I think part of the problem is the vagueness of the question. What does it even mean to have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of an entire country? Current government or system of government, sure, but the whole country?
