United States presidential approval rating
| Order | President | Highest approval | Lowest approval | High –
Low | Highest disapproval | Lowest disapproval | Highest margin | Lowest margin | Final poll | Approval
average[4] | Polls
per year |
|---|
| 46[7] | Joe Biden | 57(2021-02-02, 2021-04-21)[8] | 36(2024-07-21) | 21 | 59(2022-07-26, 2023-04-25, 2023-10-23, 2023-11-21, 2023-12-20, 2024-02-20) | 37(2021-02-02) | 20(2021-02-02) | −22 (2023-04-25, 2023-10-23, 2023-11-21, 2024-07-21) | TBD | 42 | TBD |
| 45[9] | Donald Trump | 49(2020-01-29, 2020-02-16, 2020-03-22, 2020-04-28, 2020-05-13) | 34(2021-01-15) | 15 | 62(2021-01-15) | 45(2017-01-22, 2020-03-22)[10] | 4(2020-03-22) | −28 (2021-01-15) | 34 (2021-01-15) | 41 | 40 |
| 44[11] | Barack Obama | 69(2009-01-24) | 38(2014-09-05) | 31 | 57(2014-10-10) | 12(2009-01-23) | 56(2009-01-23, 2009-01-24) | −18(2014-10-10) | 59(2017-01-19) | 48 | 48.4 |
| 43[12] | George W. Bush | 90(2001-09-22) | 25(2008-10-05, 2008-10-12, 2008-11-02) | 65 | 71(2008-10-10) | 6(2001-09-22) | 84(2001-09-22) | −46(2008-10-12) | 34(2009-01-11) | 49 | 33.7 |
| 42[13] | Bill Clinton | 73(1998-12-20) | 37(1993-06-06) | 36 | 54(1994-09-07) | 20(1993-01-26) | 48(1998-12-20) | −14(1994-09-07) | 66(2001-01-14) | 55 | 28.5 |
| 41[14] | George H. W. Bush | 89(1991-02-28) | 29(1992-08-02) | 60 | 60(1992-07-31) | 6(1989-01-26) | 82(1991-03-03) | −30(1992-08-02, 1992-10-13) | 56(1993-01-11) | 61 | 39.5 |
| 40[15] | Ronald Reagan | 68(1986-05-19) | 35(1983-01-31) | 33 | 56(1983-01-31) | 13(1981-02-02) | 49(1981-04-06) | −21(1983-01-31) | 63(1988-12-29) | 53 | 37.0 |
| 39[16] | Jimmy Carter | 75(1977-03-21) | 28(1979-07-02) | 47 | 59(1979-07-02) | 8(1977-02-07, 1977-03-02) | 66(1977-03-15) | −31(1979-07-02) | 34(1980-12-08) | 46 | 22.7 |
| 38[17] | Gerald Ford | 71(1974-08-19) | 37(1975-03-31) | 34 | 48(1975-03-31) | 3(1974-08-19) | 67(1974-08-13) | −11(1975-03-31) | 53(1976-12-13) | 47 | 14.7 |
| 37[18] | Richard Nixon | 67(1969-11-17, 1973-01-29) | 24(1974-07-15, 1974-07-26, 1974-08-05) | 43 | 66(1974-08-05) | 5(1969-01-28) | 57(1969-03-17) | −42(1974-08-05) | 24(1974-08-05) | 49 | 17.7 |
| 36[19] | Lyndon B. Johnson | 79(1964-03-05) | 35(1968-08-12) | 44 | 53(1968-08-12) | 2(1963-12-10) | 75(1963-12-10) | −18(1968-08-12) | 49(1969-01-06) | 55 | 15.3 |
| 35[20] | John F. Kennedy | 82(1961-05-03, 1961-06-06) | 56(1963-09-17) | 26 | 30(1963-11-13) | 5(1961-04-11) | 77(1961-05-03) | 27(1963-09-17) | 58(1963-11-13) | 70 | 13.7 |
| 34[21] | Dwight Eisenhower | 79(1956-12-19) | 48(1958-04-01) | 31 | 36(1958-04-01) | 7(1953-02-05) | 66(1953-04-02, 1956-12-19) | 12(1958-04-01) | 59(1960-12-13) | 65 | 14.4 |
| 33[22] | Harry Truman | 87(1945-06-05) | 22(1951-11-16, 1952-02-14) | 65 | 67(1952-01-06) | 3(1945-06-05) | 85(1945-08-22) | −43(1952-01-04) | 32(1952-12-16) | 45 | 8.4 |
| 32[23] | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 83(1942-01-23) | 48(1939-08-18) | 35 | 46(1938-05-22, 1938-05-29, 1938-11-07) | 73(1942-01-23) | 65(1943-12-15) | 63 | 8 |