Barack Obama has deposed Bill Gates from his position as world’s most admired man for the first time since YouGov first started asking in 2014.

The poll comes as Russian opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, was poisoned and moved to a hospital in Germany.

The recent agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, officially normalizing relations between the two countries, has been greeted with majority approval (54%) by the American public in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll.

YouGov asks more than 27,000 people in 26 countries and regions about their economic circumstances and outlook

Republicans and Democrats are both less likely to describe modern-day America as a shining city on a hill when compared to 1989.

Americans in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll believe the intelligence reports that Russia secretly offered militants in Afghanistan rewards for killing American troops, though many aren’t sure what to think.

Latest round-up of YouGov’s coronavirus survey results

Latest round-up of YouGov’s coronavirus survey results

Latest round-up of YouGov’s coronavirus survey results

Despite the lack of overwhelming backing for the World Health Organization, Americans do not want to leave it. That is, except for Republicans, who support the president’s actions in taking the country out of WHO.

Four in five (79%) of Republicans and half of Democrats say China’s handing of the virus led to the worldwide pandemic.

A YouGov Eurotrack survey asked people in seven major European countries, as well as the United States, how they believe other nations have handled the crisis compared to their own. All European countries agree that they have done worse than South Korea, but better than the United States.

Latest round-up of YouGov’s coronavirus survey results

% of people in each country who think the coronavirus situation is getting better in their country/globally

Net change in happiness in each country compared to two weeks prior

YouGov has been tracking attitudes to coronavirus in Britain since lockdown began on 23 March, with our US tracker starting a few days later on 26 March, and in Germany on 30 April.

Latest round-up of YouGov’s coronavirus survey results

The latest Economist/YouGov Poll finds about half (49%) of the country say it's definitely or probably true that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in China, although US intelligence agencies have not said this was how the outbreak began.

Latest round-up of YouGov’s coronavirus survey results

More than a quarter of adults (27%) view China as an enemy, the highest percentage since the start of the Trump administration.