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Average sentiment score of online news articles mentioning selected global political leaders in Germany from 2017 to 2024

Characteristic	Angela Merkel	Boris Johnson	Donald Trump	Jacinda Ardern	Joe Biden	Narendra Modi	Olaf Scholz	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Rishi Sunak	Ursula von der Leyen	Vladimir Putin	Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Xi Jinping
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Release date

February 2025

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2017 to 2024

Supplementary notes

The following search terms have been used: "Angela Merkel," "Biden," "Boris Johnson," "Donald Trump," "Erdogan," "Jacinda Ardern," "Narendra Modi," "Olaf Scholz," "Putin," "Rishi Sunak," "von der Leyen," "Xi Jinping" and "Zelensky / Zelenskyy / Selenskyj / Zelenskiy."

The mentions refer to the GDELT database which translates articles in 65 languages into English. The figures represent the average sentiment score of all articles GDELT monitored during that time interval which include at least once the search term. The score is calculated by giving words in an article an sentiment score based on its connotation (from -100 (extremely negative) to +100 (extremely positive) and taking the mean of these words per article. The overall score is the average score of all articles.
The tone is weighted.

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In Germany, online articles mentioning the Russian President Vladimir Putin had the most negative tone among the global leaders presented, based on the average sentiment score in 2024. Putin's average sentiment score was measured at , having decreased from the previous year. To compare, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's score was . The scores were negative because most articles mentioning the politicians were related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The sentiment score of Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, decreased to **** in 2024 from in the previous year. His predecessor, Angela Merkel, had a sentiment score of ****, the highest over the observed period. Another German politician and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, had a score of .