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德国成全世界最受好评国家 Germany is the most positively viewed nation in the world in this years annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service. 英国广播公司（BBC）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 Europes 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. View of India deteriorates ? A three-point increase in Germanys 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. ? Risers and fallers ? In Ghana, 84% of people polled said Germanys influence was mainly positive, while 81% in neighbouring France and 76% in Australia felt the same. The big 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