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AI SENTIMENT 2026

How does the world view superintelligent AI?

Explore one of the world's largest studies on public attitudes toward advanced AI systems

DPI 2026

How do people around the world see democracy?

Explore the world’s largest annual survey on democracy

GLOBAL PULSE 2026

How concerned is the world about conflict and security?

Explore global attitudes toward conflict, military threats, international stability, and national defense

COUNTRY PERCEPTIONS 2026

How does the world view different countries?

Explore the global reputation of countries and international organizations across more than 100 markets

GLOBAL LEADERS

How do people around the world view global leaders?

Explore how people across 100+ countries see key political, business and cultural leaders

Government ratings

How do people feel about their governments?

Explore the world’s largest study on how people rate their governments on 18 different policy areas

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Omnibus surveys

Ask the world a question without breaking the bank

Nira Data runs a series of regional and global "omnibus" surveys: a research method where you can add individual questions to a longer survey without having to pay for the whole survey yourself.

Three survey question cards: 1) Grocery spending change with options from increase significantly to decrease significantly; 2) Support or oppose pausing superintelligent AI development with options from strongly support to strongly oppose; 3) Adding a single-choice question about overall perception of China with responses from very positive to very negative, plus Save and Cancel buttons.
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Custom research

Set up your own research project

Whether you want to run a comparative study across dozens of countries, or dive deep into a specific city, Nira Data lets you access a sampling frame of over 3 billion mobile users across 190 countries.

Reports

The largest dataset on people’s perception of democracy and society

Every year, Nira Data asks hundreds of thousands of people in over 100 countries how they perceive world leaders, whether they are happy with the state of democracy in their country, how they would rate their government, whether they are worried about conflict and many more questions. We publish the results in a unique set of reports that give you access to some of the most important questions of our times.

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The Democracy Perception Index has become an essential tool for grounding our discussions on the state of democracy in some hard facts. We need to both defend and reinvigorate our democracies at a time when global authoritarianism is on the rise. The Democracy Perception Index is essential reading and a wake-up call for leaders around the world who care about building trust and strengthening democratic institutions.

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Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Chair of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, former NATO Chief, and Danish Prime Minister

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