10. Slovenia
Disapproval rating: 54%
GDP per capita: $29,658
Unemployment rate: 9.8%
Life expectancy: 80.3 years
A majority of Slovenian survey respondents said
they did not approve of U.S. leadership. Despite
the country’s status as a major ally in NATO
and a member of the EU, Slovenia’s disapproval
rating of 54% was the 10th highest of the 135
countries reviewed. Like several other countries
disliking the U.S., Yugoslavia, which included
Slovenia, once had close diplomatic ties to the
Soviet Union. Many residents have likely not
forgotten the tensions during the Cold War.
Slovenia was also hit hard by the European
financial crisis, with public debt as a percentage
of GDP growing from 22% in 2008 to 63% in
2013. This may also have contributed to the
poor approval rating, as countries suffering
financially are less likely to look favorably on
the wealthiest nation in the world, according to
Holliday.
Above, A Slovenian wearing a traditional carnival
mask runs and jumps in the streets of Cerkno
during carnival time.



9. Tajikistan
Disapproval rating: 54%
GDP per capita: $2,536
Unemployment rate: N/A
Life expectancy: 67.4 years
Disapproval of the U.S. rose from 39% in 2013
to 54% in 2014 in this primarily Sunni Muslim,
landlocked Central Asian country. Tajikistan’s
perception of The U.S. was not alone in
suffering last year. Approval of the EU also fell
15 percentage points to 32%, and approval of
China slipped 11 percentage points to 61%. The
U.S. and Russia are competing to provide what
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central
Asia Daniel Rosenblum described as “security
cooperation” with Tajikistan. Tajikistan is one of
17 countries — six of which are former Soviet
republics — in which the majority of
respondents approved of Russia’s leadership.
Some 93% of Tajik respondents approved of
Russia’s leadership, the strongest such approval
rating of any country. Tajikistan is one of the
poorest former Soviet bloc countries with a
struggling economy, corruption, power
shortages, and other problems. It has the lowest
GDP of the countries disapproving of the U.S.
Above, women prepare bread in the Zeravshan
River valley.



8. Austria
Disapproval rating: 55%
GDP per capita: $45,789
Unemployment rate: 5%
Life expectancy: 80.9 years
Disapproval of the U.S. rose nine percentage
points from 2013 to 55% in 2014 in this Central
European country, which was once the seat of
power for the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Following its defeat in World War I, the Empire
was split and Austria became a smaller republic.
It was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 and
then occupied by the Allies at the end of World
War II in 1945. It joined the EU in 1995. U.S.
officials have been critical of Austria for
continuing to trade with Iran and North Korea
and for permitting the wanted leader of the
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to leave Austria.
In addition to being one of the countries with
the highest disapproval ratings of the U.S.,
Austria was also one of the 10 countries with
the highest disapproval rating of China with 70%
of respondents turning thumbs down on Chinese
leadership. Austria is also somewhat of an
outlier on this list, as it is neither a former
Soviet Republic, nor a predominantly Islamic
nation. Above, Anti-Nazi protesters gather in
April outside the house where Adolf Hitler was
born in Braunau Am Inn.



7. Egypt
Disapproval rating: 58%
GDP per capita: $10,877
Unemployment rate: 13.4%
Life expectancy: 71.1 years
While the U.S. and Egypt both belong to the
U.N., IMF, World Bank, and WTO, and have been
trade partners for many years, 58% of Egyptians
disapprove of U.S. leadership — the seventh
worst rating among countries reviewed. Egypt is
the most populous country in the Arab world
and a key ally of the U.S. in its effort to fight
terrorism and promote stability in the region.
The disapproval rating remained flat since the
ousting of democratically elected President
Mohammed Morsi. However, the subsequent
cuts to the U.S. aid budget to Egypt and its
condemnation of Morsi’s ousting likely did not
help improve the disapproval rating. Ties with
the country’s newly elected president, former
General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, remain strained.
Above, supporters of Egypt's former President
Hosni Mubarak gather outside the Maadi military
hospital for his birthday on May 4 in Cairo.



6. Iran
Disapproval rating: 61%
GDP per capita: $16,881
Unemployment rate: 11.2%
Life expectancy: 74.1 years
The U.S. and Iran’s deep dislike for one another
spans many years. In 1953, the CIA helped oust
Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh to
prevent the country from supporting the Soviet
Union. Once leadership was secured under
America’s favored ruler Reza Shah Pahlavi, Iran
grew powerful with vast oil revenues and U.S.
weapons. However, the Shah had to later flee to
Egypt amid the growing Iranian Revolution,
which opposed the Shah’s “anti-Islamic” and
Westernizing government. In 1979, Iranian
revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy in
Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage for 444
days. There have been U.S. restrictions on
activities with Iran in one form or another since
then. More recently, the U.S. and other Western
nations have imposed extremely severe
sanctions on Iran in an attempt to curb its
nuclear capabilities. This April, the world’s major
powers agreed on a framework for a nuclear
deal with Iran. The country’s foreign minister
said Iran will continue its nuclear enrichment
program if all sanctions are not lifted by the
end of negotiations. Above, Iranian soldiers
chant anti-Israeli and anti-U.S. slogans during a
ceremony marking the 36th anniversary of the
return from exile of the founder of Iran's Islamic
Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Feb. 1,
2015 at Khomeini's mausoleum in a suburb of
Tehran.



5. Pakistan
Disapproval rating: 65%
GDP per capita: $4,574
Unemployment rate: 6.2%
Life expectancy: 66.6 years
Pakistan’s disapproval rating of U.S. leadership
is greater than all but four other countries.
According to the U.S. State Department,
Pakistan has received well over $4 billion in
civilian assistance from the U.S. from 2009
through 2013. In addition, the country has
received about $13 billion from the U.S. in
military aid over the past 13 years. America’s
involvement in the country may actually be the
problem, however. The U.S. focused its
operations in Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks,
and it continues to maintain a strong presence
in the country to combat terrorism. Osama bin
Laden was hiding in Pakistan, and the U.S.
mission to kill him may have also increased
disapproval among many Pakistanis. Above,
Pakistani residents shout slogans as they march
behind a banner during a protest in Peshawar on
May 5 against the anti-Muslim cartoon
exhibition in Garland, Texas.



4. Lebanon
Disapproval rating: 66%
GDP per capita: $16,430
Unemployment rate: N/A
Life expectancy: 80.1 years
A religiously diverse Middle Eastern country —
54% Muslim and 41% Christian — Lebanon is one
of 15 countries in which a majority of
respondents disapprove of U.S. leadership. It is
also one of 11 countries where a majority
disapprove of the EU leadership, and one of
eight countries in which a majority disapprove
of Germany’s leadership. Since the end of the
2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, Congress has
approved more than $1 billion to improve
Lebanese security forces’ control over the
country and foster economic growth. The U.S.
standing among Lebanese respondents
improved slightly from 2013, when 71%
disapproved of the U.S. Possibly contributing to
a longer term U.S. loss of standing in Lebanon
is the fact that some members of Congress
questioned continued funding of U.S.-sponsored
initiatives there. Since the 2012 fiscal year,
Congress has placed conditions on annual aid to
Lebanon. Above, a Lebanese soldier adjusts a
machine gun mounted on a military vehicle upon
the arrival of a shipment of U.S. weapons at the
Beirut port in February.



3. Belarus
Disapproval rating: 69%
GDP per capita: $17,623
Unemployment rate: 0.51%
Life expectancy: 72.5 years
As in several other former Soviet Union
countries, many Belarus residents may still
harbor dislike for America as a result of
tensions during the Cold War. Further, the U.S.
backing of Ukraine after Russia’s annexation of
Crimea may have exacerbated ill will toward the
U.S. in Belarus, as it did in other countries in
the region. The country is still friendly with
Russia, as about 62% of Belarus respondents
approved Russia’s leadership, up from 46% in
2013 — the largest such increase among
countries reviewed. The county’s high opinion of
Russia, the country disapproving of the U.S. the
most, may partly explain its similarly poor
perception of the U.S. Also, poor economic
factors may partly account for the poor rating,
as economically struggling nations often look
upon the U.S. unfavorably, according to
Holliday. The country’s inflation rate of 18.1%
was the fifth highest among countries reviewed,
and the GDP per capita of $17,623 was among
the lower figures world-wide.
Above, Belarus' Catholics celebrate Palm
Sunday in the town of Oshmiany.



2. Palestinian Territories
Disapproval rating: 72%
GDP per capita: N/A
Unemployment rate: N/A
Life expectancy: N/A
The 72% disapproval rating of Palestinians
toward the U.S. improved somewhat from 2013,
when 80% disapproved of U.S. leadership — the
worst rating at the time. The U.S. government
has stated it favors a two-state solution to the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict. However,
perceptions among Palestinian Territories
residents will likely not improve as long as the
U.S. is perceived as fully supporting and aiding
Israel despite its continued occupation of the
Palestinian Territories. Hamas, the effective
governing body in the Gaza Strip since 2007, is
also considered by the U.S. and other Western
nations to be a terrorist organization.
Above, a Palestinian boy shouts slogans during a
protest in the Al-Zaim village, east of
Jerusalem, May 6, to protest the Israeli army's
closure of a main road leading from the West
Bank side of the village to Jerusalem by a
fence and a gate, preventing its citizens from
traveling through that route.



1. Russia
Disapproval rating: 82%
GDP per capita: $24,298
Unemployment rate: 5.5%
Life expectancy: 71.1 years
No country disapproves of America more than
Russia, where 82% of survey respondents said
they disapproved of U.S. leadership. This was
also the worst rating from Russia in the history
of the survey. While many Russians do not like
America, residents of many other countries do
not approve of Russia. The median disapproval
rating of Russian leadership was greater than
the median approval rating, the only country to
claim this distinction. And while a majority of
residents in 15 countries disapprove of the U.S.,
a majority of residents in 42 countries
disapprove of Russia’s leadership. Russia’s
disapproval rating of U.S. leadership worsened
considerably from 2013, increasing 12
percentage points. Recently implemented U.S.-
led Western sanctions on Russia have likely
intensified Russians’ disapproval. According to
historical data from the Levada Center, Russia’s
independent public opinion tracker, negative
attitudes toward the U.S. spiked during the
invasion of Iraq and worsened again in 2008
after the Russia-Georgia conflict. More recently,
the U.S. sided with Ukraine after Russia
annexed Crimea in 2014. Above, Russian
President Vladimir Putin speaks with journalists
shortly after his annual televised phone-in with
the nation in central Moscow April 16.



www.marketwatch.com/story/10-countries-that-hate-the-us-the-most-2015-06-11

I want to believe God hates that dumb country
But edit your post well so It'll make FP.

North Korea nko

I love America but I detest their high-handedness, grandstanding, arrogance, hypocrisy and bullying in international politics.

They are practicing democracy and capitalism doesn't mean the same system will work everywhere, they tend to brainwash a lot with their media propaganda, stereotyping and profiling.

I love them but they are hypocrites.