Voters have more faith today that the United States will remain the world’s top superpower.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 40% of Likely U.S. Voters now think the United States will still be the most powerful nation in the world at the end of the 21st century, up from 33% in March 2016 and 27% at the end of 2014. Just 24% now disagree, down significantly from 48% three years ago. Thirty-six percent (36%) are not sure what the United States’ status will be at the end of the century. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 18-19, 2017 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.