SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 12 September 2024, Shift 3 · General Awareness · Question 12 of 100

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Who is the world’s most popular leader as per Global Leader Approval Ratings released by US-based Morning Consult in February 2023?

(a)Xi Jinping
(b)Vladimir Putin
(c)Joe Biden
(d)Narendra Modi

Answer

Why

Correct — D. The key names Narendra Modi. Morning Consult, an American survey and data-analytics firm, runs a continuously updated Global Leader Approval Rating tracker for heads of government, and in February 2023 Modi stood at the top of it.

Note what the tracker is: a private opinion survey, not an official ranking. It works from rolling online interviews of adults in each country, so the thing being compared is each leader's approval at home.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Xi Jinping — Xi Jinping, the President of China, is the reflexive pick on any question about a popular world leader, but he was not the name at the top of the February 2023 tracker.
(b)
Vladimir Putin — Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, is a standing option in current-affairs questions of this shape and not the leader this tracker ranked first.
(c)
Joe Biden — Joe Biden was the US President when the rating was released, and Morning Consult is a US firm — that proximity is the trap, since the top place went to Modi.

Concept

An approval-rating tracker asks a sample of adults in a country whether they approve of their own leader, then lines the percentages up side by side. What travels between countries is the method, not the electorate — each leader is judged only by his own citizens.

That is why a leader can head such a list without being widely known abroad. Popularity here means domestic approval, and reading it as international standing is the mistake the question invites.

Carry the source with the fact. This is a Morning Consult reading for February 2023 — a private tracker at one moment, not a permanent title, and its numbers move week by week.

Key facts

Morning Consult is a United States-based survey and data-analytics company.
Its Global Leader Approval Rating tracker reports approval of national leaders among adults in their own countries.
In February 2023 the tracker placed Narendra Modi first among the leaders it covered.
The tracker is a private survey updated continuously, so any ranking from it is tied to a date.

Study next

Global indices and rankings — who publishes each one and what it actually measuresThe difference between an approval rating and an election resultCurrent-affairs items that need a source and a month attached, not just a name

Common traps

Answering from the latest news instead of the February 2023 date the question fixes
Assuming an American firm's tracker would put the American President first
Treating a private survey as an official international ranking

Read the date before the options. This same shift attaches 'as of 31 May 2021' to UDAN route coverage at GA Q18 and pins an adolescent-population figure to Census 2011 at GA Q25.

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