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1 德国成全世界最受好评国家德国成全世界最受好评国家 GermanyGermany isis thethe mostmost positivelypositively viewedviewed nationnation inin thethe worldworld inin thisthis year syear s annualannual CountryCountry RatingsRatings PollPoll forfor thethe BBCBBC WorldWorld Service Service 英国广播公司 英国广播公司 BBCBBC 的全球民意调查显示 德国成为全世界最受好评的国家 的全球民意调查显示 德国成为全世界最受好评的国家 More than 26 000 people were surveyed internationally for the poll They were asked to rate 16 countries and the European Union on whether their influence in the world was mainly positive or mainly negative Germany came out top with 59 rating it positively Iran was once again the most negatively viewed Global views of Europe s biggest country have improved significantly in 2013 according to the poll It was conducted for the BBC by GlobeScan and PIPA who conducted face to face and telephone interviews with randomly selected people mainly in urban centres in 25 countries around the globe ViewView ofof IndiaIndia deterioratesdeteriorates A three point increase in Germany s average rating returned it to the top of the BBC list displacing Japan which saw its positive ratings drop from 58 to 51 and fell from first to fourth place overall The UK saw a bigger increase in positive ratings than any other country and climbed to third place in the table in the wake of its hosting of the 2012 Olympics The poll also indicates that positive views of China and India have fallen sharply around the world over the last year After improving for several years views of China have sunk to their lowest level since polling began in 2005 putting it in ninth position India is ranked 12th with negative views 35 slightly outnumbering positive ones 34 for the first time RisersRisers andand fallersfallers In Ghana 84 of people polled said Germany s influence was mainly positive while 81 in neighbouring France and 76 in Australia felt the same The big 2 exception to the trend was in recession hit Greece where a majority of people polled gave Germany negative ratings Positive views of the EU dropped to their lowest level last year but have stabilised this year rising one point to 49 on average But this figure masks significant changes There has been a sharp drop in positive ratings by Germans down 14 points to 59 Canadians and Americans both give significantly lower ratings to the EU In the UK positive views of the EU continue to fall steadily and for the first time this year more Britons rate it negatively 47 than positively 42 Israel North Korea Pakistan and Iran came